QUOTE (Ember @ 30 Dec 2011, 21:49)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Harry a couple of warnings. You're running on Classic track I'm guessing from the 20 year old comment. What DJ has suggested is the correct way to go about things. You can't just pitch in another power straight to the mix and run two power bases.
Ember, you really need to read all the advice before you pitch in with your incorrect version. The trouble with a little knowledge is that incorrect knowledge gets repeated as fact, just like Chinese whispers. Two powerbases
"connect them in series on a straight section of your circuit, cut the under-track wires on each powerbase so that powerbase 1 powers only lane 1 and powerbase 2 powers only lane 2" can be used if wired as I suggested, and will cost very little. DJ's method works too, but as he acknowledges may cost more. Your advice is wrong, unless, of course, you know something that nobody else knows about how two powerbases, each adapted to power only one lane by the simple expedient of cutting two wires, can conflict with each other.
And just in case you don't know, 20 year old powerbases differ from those that you appear to be familiar with.