Traincontroller and Signalist SC1

[pctrainman]

Hi , I have a Lenz N gauge system using Traincontroller Silver and block detection by DCC4PC railcom reader boards and I now want to add 11 two aspect colour light signals and am considering using the signalist SC1 ( x3) to control them via traincontroller Silver , my question is does anyone have experience of this setup and more pertinately does it work ? , I was going to do it with Arduinos but i'm afraid the coding and making of the necessary DCC adaptor boards has proved beyond me so i'm looking for an alternative route .

[pctrainman]

I have now decided to go with the SC1's as someone on another site has a setup very similar to mine and he has  assured me that they work well with traincontroller so you may consider this thread as being closed .

[reded23]

Hi , I have a Lenz N gauge system using Traincontroller Silver and block detection by DCC4PC railcom reader boards and I now want to add 11 two aspect colour light signals and am considering using the signalist SC1 ( x3) to control them via traincontroller Silver , my question is does anyone have experience of this setup and more pertinately does it work ? , I was going to do it with Arduinos but i'm afraid the coding and making of the necessary DCC adaptor boards has proved beyond me so i'm looking for an alternative route .

Hi, Can I ask you how you have found the DCC4PC block detector with traincontroller, does it pass the loco data to the software OK ? Thanks in advance

[pctrainman]

Hi, Can I ask you how you have found the DCC4PC block detector with traincontroller, does it pass the loco data to the software OK ? Thanks in advance

Hi , I've not done a lot on the layout this summer as my garden demands much attention at this time but I have made some progress and had some problems so it's been rather akin to 2 steps forward and 1 back , I do not yet have TC fully configured as to my needs and at the moment i'm concentrating on signalling which is proving to be more confusing than I anticipated , I am also trying to figure out why a scissor crossing wired up with 4 analogue cobalts and a dual frog juicer which has worked fine is suddenly giving me shorts and why at the moment it appears to be related to the installation of 3 signalist SC1's , so in summary i'm unable to answer your query more than to say that the DCC4PC reader boards are working fine as regards occupancy but I have no idea whether TC is making use of Railcom data .

[pctrainman]

Hi , I've not done a lot on the layout this summer as my garden demands much attention at this time but I have made some progress and had some problems so it's been rather akin to 2 steps forward and 1 back , I do not yet have TC fully configured as to my needs and at the moment i'm concentrating on signalling which is proving to be more confusing than I anticipated , I am also trying to figure out why a scissor crossing wired up with 4 analogue cobalts and a dual frog juicer which has worked fine is suddenly giving me shorts and why at the moment it appears to be related to the installation of 3 signalist SC1's , so in summary i'm unable to answer your query more than to say that the DCC4PC reader boards are working fine as regards occupancy but I have no idea whether TC is making use of Railcom data .

As an update having now configured TC to my needs I can confirm that the DCC4PC Railcom reader boards are passing on Railcom data to TC and it is making use of that data , additionally the reader boards work perfectly as occupancy detectors .