Originally Posted by Barsk

To be honest, the loop will be under the cars. There is no way that the club would accept a loop over the track. We run 1/8 scale nitro buggies there and there will be crashes for sure where these cars can come flying that will break either the cars or the loop bridge. So either we can make the loop work on ground level - or the whole decoder project is a no go. But I've seen other mentions of successful adaptions of a ground level loop so I am hopeful. However, if you have any tips on how to maximise our luck with this setup I am grateful. The track is mostly clay. The place where the loop will go however will be gravel with wooden cover. But that can be adopted. We could probably put the loop on clay inside electrical plastic tubing that is used in houses for the internal wiring. Not sure what they are called in the U.S. Here they are called TP tubes. Or without tubes directly buried in clay with a piece of carpet above. Another idea was to have a row of garden concrete tiles and put the loop around that row. That would make the loop open to air and still protected. These are the variants that are spinning in my head here.