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In lugnet.trains, Chris Phillips wrote:
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devices. Another piece of hardware that any DCC-head could easily make would
be a stand-alone DCC decoder packaged in a 2x4 brick which could be used to
run the motors of automated switch points, roundhouses, decouplers, or other
motorized or lighted trackside structures.
- Chris.
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I’m just going thru my mind (which is always a bad idea), and this would be, as
stated, very easy--
My DCC chip has motor out, and 2 light wires out. Connect ‘em to a electric
plate and we’re good to go!
Lets see--you’ll need a 2x2 electric plate for the connector to the tracks, a
2x2 electric plate for the motour out, and maybe each light out can have a
separate 2x2 electric plate, or, like in my trains, the light outs are tied
together (one wire is on when the train is moving forward, the other light wire
is for when the trian is moving in reverse)...
So 2x6 is what I’d use, and that’ll fit an HO decoder (which is much cheaper
than the N scale I have inside my train motors...)
I’ll hopefully try that this weekend as well--trip to the hobby store coming up!
(if finances can be found :) )
Dave K
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| (...) Cool. I think that this is the key to getting DCC into wider use. After all, there are only so many trains that will fit onto a layout unless it is truly massive. But there are a lot of potentially motorized items on a layout that could be (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, FTX)
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| (...) I have been working on a different project toward the same end-- improved train layout automation, and I have had similar questions as to whether it is worth the effort for the small number of people who might actually benefit from it. Since (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, FTX)
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