It's a public holiday in Germany today and the wife is away so this afforded me two rare luxuries i) cook bacon ii) spend almost the whole day pottering around with the soldering iron and drill. This electronics saga has been going on for quite a while (months) but apart from wiring up a few network cables (run out of RJ12 connectors) the job's finished and although not perfect by any means, it's a big improvement on the boards I had before.

So here are all five of the BDL168 occupancy detectors, giving me 80 detection zones and also 6 of the 8 DAC20 point decoders. Although these have 24v going in, they only have 7v coming out, which as long as my old Cobalt stall point motors are recently regreased and newly oiled up (they are about 8 years old) work just about fine. Were I doing this again i'd use the new general of digital Cobalts which would save a lot of time.

So now I just have to fix the boards underneath the layout, reattach the wires and power and it all should work. The difference being now that it will be so much quicker to complete track laying and get the points and occupancy detectors working, just plug (or solder) and play.

The wall display cabinets are still up.