Following completion of the woodwork a few months ago I have recently re-started the control panel project as the number of switches on the temporary board is steadily increasing.

First I installed my CANUSB and CANPAN / TM7 temporary board inside the left hand panel and its been like that for a few months while I pondered where to go next with it and extended the CBUS around the layout.

I have now cut the woodwork (3mm ply) and screwed / bolted to a couple of hinges for the panel top.

Recently I was lucky to procure some IDC patch boards from a MERG member for getting the wiring sorted between the CANPAN and the switches and LEDs. I am still figuring out which wire goes where and will likely setup something on a breadboard before installing it on the main panel

I have worked out that I am having a switchbank rather than a mimic panel as I haven't the space for a mimic panel. I have plotted the switch and LED positions on some graph paper (better to make mistakes here before drilling holes)

Intend to have 24 switches per panel and 64 LEDs running off two CANPANs. The system works by having 1 (of 4) switch powering up 8 switches at a time so I only need 12 switches for each CANPAN and I am intending to have 4 CANPANS altogether. Noting that 1 switch could actually make a series of items move i.e. place signals to danger, move point 1, move point 2, clear signals....

I am using on-off-on toggle switches that I already have where the toggle returns to the off position. I could use the down position potentially as another switch but will probably leave it un-used

Am waiting for a IDC crimping tool and some LED holders (and LEDs) to turn up before I can push this project forwards