Starting at the Wrong End - building the control panel first
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Control Panels
At some recent exhibitions I’ve been looking at the control panels people have been using. Some are almost as large as the layout they control. Others are a tad smaller. Most are maps of the system. So in my perverse way what better to start designing the layout than with the control panel.
The design of Coombe Barton requires that the control panel is incorporated within the layout, hence why I’m starting with it. And the room taken up by said control panel will determine what track is laid where, to some extent. At least it determines how much . The point and signal control is entirely manual and will be using the Scalefour Society’s lever frames. The train control is DC – via a Morley Vector using the supplied remote. Uncoupling is via electromagnets for the Alex Jacksons. I’ve been trying to combine the signal box and control diagrams with little success, so separated them.
Signal Box Diagram and Control Panel – yellow circles are where section switches, red circles where uncoupling magnet pushbuttons will be.
The lever frame is about 6†wide.
Putting the whole lot together will be interesting, but should look a bit like this.
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