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Hi All,
As Lar anticipated, combining my recent posts about the
smart motor and
motorized switch with a short bit of
wire soldered to a switch track, the result is this:
click an image to enlarge
The advantage to this is that since both power and control signals are pulled
directly from the track, there is no need to clutter the layout with a bunch of
long wires or pneumatic hoses.
Here are some detailed views of the switch mod:
click an image to enlarge
The two white wires on the top of the right photo are there to give both the
main and divergent routes power at all times. The grooves for the black wire
were created with this new Dremel bit I’ve added to my ABS persuasion kit:
click image to enlarge
(Yes, that old dark gray ABS dust you see there... ;-)
I’ve done some preliminary operational tests and everything works swell. I
still need to add full support for this to the LDCC firmware (coming soon).
Though I wasn’t a trainhead at the time, I’m reminded of the DCC switches in
Ben’s April Fool’s Joke
(second photo down). As it turns out, all that’s really required to make that
DCC system reality is some DCC decoders, a few mods and a bit of software - the
rest is Lego.
Cheers,
Mark
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