I continue to be impressed with your efforts! I'd not picked up on this being the "downstairs" serving a station above before but that explains why you're doing everything you're doing. Great that you're soldering too - it gets easier with practice :) Keep it coming! Mike
Thank you Mike! Ah yes, sometimes I think of it as two 'modes', when it's done. It will still, ultimately, be a roundy-roundy and I'll be able to set trains off manually and just let them go around in circles. But then also there's a kind of 'station' mode where the only focus is on the station, and different trains come and go based on a schedule. Might be interesting to try anyway!
The current detectors sure work a treat, Will be giving the diode one a good testing after seeing your video and finding the page with the mods after searching the KB. Keep up the good work.@@WirenwoodModelRailway
Im glad I found your video as I designed a MERG 6 channel version of the PMK7 board currently I have 7 boards plus a CD4049/50 to give a logic output to feed to an MCP23017 board ... and if I get false triggers I would also wonder what was going on, so i'm feeding into a DCCEX command station for block detection ...Regards John
I think you are going to have the most comprehensive do it yourself DCC video collection on UA-cam. I am at the signal implementation portion of my layout. I am interested in what you have planned. Mike
Thanks Mike. I've had a lot of trouble with AutoTrains this week and a couple of JMRI gotchas that I didn't expect. I don't know much about signals so am just looking at, well, based on block detection I guess, so maybe one signal per block with some kind of sensor to set a stopping point for trains. 3 aspect, and that's about as far as I've got! I think it's possible to set up virtual signals in JMRI so thought I'd try that first, get them behaving as expected then start wiring physical ones in. How about you?
@@WirenwoodModelRailway I approached it the same way and got it to work but found it very cumbersome. I built a CATS panel and found it very much easier. Got sick and have not gotten back to it. Dennis Cherry is an excellent source for CATS questions on the group io blog. There is also a UA-cam channel. Keystone rails.
I continue to be impressed with your efforts! I'd not picked up on this being the "downstairs" serving a station above before but that explains why you're doing everything you're doing. Great that you're soldering too - it gets easier with practice :) Keep it coming! Mike
Thank you Mike! Ah yes, sometimes I think of it as two 'modes', when it's done. It will still, ultimately, be a roundy-roundy and I'll be able to set trains off manually and just let them go around in circles.
But then also there's a kind of 'station' mode where the only focus is on the station, and different trains come and go based on a schedule. Might be interesting to try anyway!
Thanks for showing the adding an extra capacitor I have not found that and plan to use it in the near future.
Yeah it helps - but I've found the other, slightly more expensive, dual ones, to be much more reliable and consistent. Regards, Chris
The current detectors sure work a treat, Will be giving the diode one a good testing after seeing your video and finding the page with the mods after searching the KB. Keep up the good work.@@WirenwoodModelRailway
Im glad I found your video as I designed a MERG 6 channel version of the PMK7 board currently I have 7 boards plus a CD4049/50 to give a logic output to feed to an MCP23017 board ... and if I get false triggers I would also wonder what was going on, so i'm feeding into a DCCEX command station for block detection ...Regards John
Hi John, that sounds like something really useful! And yeah, those PMK7s can be a little over sensitive! Regards, Chris
I think you are going to have the most comprehensive do it yourself DCC video collection on UA-cam. I am at the signal implementation portion of my layout. I am interested in what you have planned.
Mike
Thanks Mike. I've had a lot of trouble with AutoTrains this week and a couple of JMRI gotchas that I didn't expect. I don't know much about signals so am just looking at, well, based on block detection I guess, so maybe one signal per block with some kind of sensor to set a stopping point for trains. 3 aspect, and that's about as far as I've got! I think it's possible to set up virtual signals in JMRI so thought I'd try that first, get them behaving as expected then start wiring physical ones in.
How about you?
@@WirenwoodModelRailway I approached it the same way and got it to work but found it very cumbersome. I built a CATS panel and found it very much easier. Got sick and have not gotten back to it. Dennis Cherry is an excellent source for CATS questions on the group io blog. There is also a UA-cam channel. Keystone rails.
The JMRI help pages have links to some old NMRA power points on signal implementation.They are pretty good.