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009 track laying - easier?


metijg

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Following some trial and error  the track plan for the 009 terminus became a reversing triangle with some small siding capability. The point actuation is by buried Peco surface point motors and it was designed to break up into 4 bits with all of the pointwork on the single middle section. Hopefully Its an operationally fun take on Twyn wharf

 

The base was 2 x 10 mm insulation material glued together. The track was all Peco settrack, other than a bit of flexi for one side of the triangle to give a bit of a wobble to one side and avoid too much straightness. I originally planned to have  Y at the top end, but as it was electrofrog it added some complication so i reverted to asymmetric RH - LH points only. One corner was isolated to prevent shorting and the power fed through a DPDT switch. The remaining track was wired with a huge amount of redundancy as the electrical contact at the points was found to be a bit suspect. 

 

Either way, for something so simple this took an inordinate amount of time, but somehow the result seemed more precise than the OO loop where every position was a compromise. 

 

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I am no expert here but I fear you are going to find the reversing triangle very difficult to wire up. There are special polarity switching devices but I uspect they may be for DCC

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13 hours ago, KH1 said:

I am no expert here but I fear you are going to find the reversing triangle very difficult to wire up. There are special polarity switching devices but I uspect they may be for DCC

 

All done! I went through some pain and experimentation (see here), but it works well. The only thing is to think about how to integrate the DPDT into the switch panel so that it is intuitive to use and doesn't short all the time..

 

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