Track and electrical/DCC
Turnout control Options for local and remote control
I am looking to finalize how I want to control my turnouts in my layout. And as such I am looking for advise.
i will have three ways of controlling turnouts.
1) local turnout, manual control
2) local turnout, electric motor control (these are often in locations that I don’t want folks trying to reach into such as close to a coal tipple.)
Digikeijs DCC
Hi All, Anyone using the Digikeijs system? I need a new DCC system for my S layout and the price seems right. I don't have internet access in my layout building so that might be a problem? Does anyone use the Digikeijs system stand alone? Can it be set up and controlled by an Ipad? .....DaveB
A little DCC help wanted: selecting sound for old electric locos
I have the desire to add sound to an old E33 locomotive (ex PRR, similar to GG1, but for freight) It's HO scale.
I've been shopping for a sound decoder, and precious few list electric loco sounds. Nobody that I've come across lists electric locomotives by type! I haven't (for instance) found a decoder that states it's suitable for the GG1, let alone the E33.
Seems simple enough, and I'm confident that someone knows which decoder is suitable... but I have yet to find it.
LCC Implementation
Hello all,
Recently I took the plunge into implementing LCC (Layout Command Control) on the latest phase of expansion on my layout. Long story short, the angst of making the decision was far worse than the actual implementation. Frankly, its been a straight forward and rewarding process. Documenting the adventure on my blog; latest update may be found at:
https://greatnorthwesternrailway.blogspot.com/2018/09/lcc-and-wiring-con...
Question on Keep Alive. Capacitor vs Decoder
I was thinking about purchasing a keep alive for one of my locomotives. Can some one please tell me the difference between a Keep Alive Capacitor and a Keep Alive Decoder? On the web site I am shopping, I communicated with the shop via email. He recommended two different Keep Alives. One listed as a keep alive capicitor and the other a decoder. The product descriptions are identical.
I plan on installing this on an Athearn Genesis MP15AC if that means anything...like space issues and such.
Powering an old time gallows turntable
I'm installing a gallows turntable and I don't mind rotating it manually but how do power [dcc] the rails so my loco will drive on/off?
Powering a Plastic Frog Turnout
I saw this discussion on another forum, so I'll just quote the opening premise,...
With all these discussions of powering frogs I got to thinking...
Has anyone tried to use a conductive silver pen to create a circuit on a plastic frog?
Could the plastic frog conceivably be coated with the conductive material and a wire then attached between the coated frog and polarity switch.
A down-side to this might be the durability of the conductive material as the wheels pass over it.
Wireless Charging Components
Neil,
I'll start a separate post so as not to hi-jack the Photo thread. I'm sure other members might want to join in.
I can't take credit for finding those circuit boards. The honor goes to Ted Scannell , a member of CLAG (Central London Area Group). After trying several other sources I came across this on the CLAG website. http://www.clag.org.uk/battery-radio.html I contacted Ted and asked where he got those boards.
Arduino application requiring large amounts of memory
when I worked on DSP applications we often ran out of memory. The last project I worked on using an ARM processor and Linux had 2 gig of flash.
i'm curious if anyone has written an Arduino program that ran into memory limits. I'm curious about the features of program and the style that it was written that require so much memory and what steps were taken to manage memory requirements.
I see that DCC++ uses 57% of prog and 43% of ram.
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