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Looking very neat as usual Robin

Where did you get your inter-board connectors?

I'm after something similar myself

There from Farnells in Leeds.

 

Here's the link to the male housing. This one is 12 way and the crimp pins are separate items.

 

http://uk.farnell.com/itt-cannon/tst02pa00/plug-free-2way/dp/1188205?MER=bn_search_1TP_SearchNB_3

 

Robin

Robin,

Wiring looking very neat and tidy, as always. There are quite a few wires connecting to your point motors, so I imagine some of them are for polarity switching using on-board contacts? I fitted Tortoise motors but used extra poles on the panel switches to switch polarity as I'd read that the on-board contacts were not all that reliable. Of course, my approach vastly increased the number of wires to and from the panel and I ended up with rather more pins in my board connectors!

The mechanical linkages under the point operating units look very complex but very neat and well engineered. They put my efforts with plastic sliders and "00" rail rodding, to shame and no mistake.

Dave.

Dave,

The analogue cobalts have 9 terminals. I have wired up eight, leaving terminal 3 which is designated for the 'frog' by DCC Concepts. As I am using separate a BUS for the motors I'm using one of the on board switches so terminals 1 & 2 are DC power in; 4,5,6 are the switch [6 common] and the three white wires are the spare [at present] switch.

The Digital Cobalts have 8 terminals wired in a similar fashion. I had to telephone DCC Concepts to clarify a wiring discrepancy on their older digital units, the label of which shows the common terminal as 8, whilst the online information identifies it as 6. The latter is correct. Apparently the older digital cobalts have incorrect labels. Have they told anyone before me???

 

The mechanical linkages are rather too complicated if I'm honest. The standard Brian Morgan units are fine but the slips are problematic.

 

Robin   

Hi.

Who or what are the Brian Morgan linkages?  Don't think I've heard of them before?

Thanks,

Brian Morgan products are available from the Scalefour Society Stores.

www.scalefour.org/eshop/

You don't have to be a member to make a purchase of them.

They are etched TOUs. Left and right turnouts, single and double slips are available. There are linkages available for both types of slips - which also contain a screw adjuster - to enable the TOU to be linked to your choice of point motor. Hope this helps

Robin