Traintastic Demonstration and Test layout

Hi,

This evening I did a bit of wiring, the result:

The cable duct and d-sub holder are both 3D printed in a dark blue color, a nive match with the YaMoRC housing color.

The six pins on the left are track common (blue), the 12 on the right are current detection sections (purple).

This is one of the three track power connectors, so two more to go.

Greetings,
Reinder

Hi,

I have now started attaching the wires to the tracks; where possible, I solder them to the rail joiners. On locations where that isn’t possible (the curve and turnout), I’ve soldered the wires directly to the underside of the rail.

All black rail joiners are insulated. Because I also want to be able to run with DINAMO, the tracks must be insulated on both rails at block boundaries. Electrically speaking, the turnout is powered by the block track driver on the toe side for DINAMO; each track driver output has 4 detectors, so you can then connect the turnout to a free detector output. In Traintastic, the turnout is of course not part of the block.

Greetings,
Reinder

Hi,

Quick update on the progress. Track wiring is complete, all rail connections are made, next up is the wiring underneath.

Needed to modify the double crossover a bit to get power everywhere, the crossover is fully insulated with railjoiners else it won’t work with DINAMO, therefor I soldered a few wires to the crossover and made a few cuts to make room for the wires.

Also made some progress on the YaMoRC DCC/S88 logic board, most cable ducts are fitted, still a lot of wiring todo.

Greetings,
Reinder

Hi!

Was very busy with getting the layout ready for the first public demonstration last Saturday. Friday night at 23:59 it was ready, got up at 6 next day, to leave at 7 for a 1.5h drive to venue in Ermelo. But I made it and demonstrated it, talked to a lot of visitors and some vendors that where there. I demonstrated basic form of automatic driving by dragging a train from one block to another, then it will automatically start driving and stop in the destination block :slight_smile:

Next event is on the 14th of November, try to have Dinamo and signals ready by then and of course some improvements to the automatic driving system.

Greetings,
Reinder

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