maandag 19 september 2011

Digital control panels?

When you use a computer interface to control the model layout, what use are control panels?
Well, for testing and 'local control' these panels turned out to be indispensable, so I have built a few of them, spread out over each part of the layout.


This one I built with the classical toggle switches (on-off-on or sp-dt), and LEDs to show the current position. This is a simple station with one side-track, but with crossover turnouts, so the trains can change to either of the two tracks.


For this I used pushbutton switches with built-in LEDs, this way I only needed one hole for both switch and indicator. The 5 LEDs next to the turnouts are used to denote the position of the signals.

The two switches on the bottom were used to control the light on the station and platform.