Hi All,
My search engine skills are letting me down on this. I feel like it should have been discussed about a zillion times, but I can't find anything 😞
I am starting to arrange my fiddle yards for automation - freight yard shown below. I've been advised to use a current detection technique, rather than infra-red. Each road needs at least 2 blocks for 2 trains, and as I understand it each block needs to be in 2 "zones", a zone that contains a main train, and a shorter zone at the front of the block that will trigger the automation when the loco arrives to stop the train before it enters the next block.
What I'm having trouble determining is how long this stop zone should be - I'm modelling OO. The only figure I can find is about 10cm, which seems a little short to me. I was thinking around 30cm (1 loco length), but have no idea where I have formed that opinion from. I know all my locos need to be speed profiled for this.
Can I ask what people tend to use for this?
If it matters, it will probably be controlled by iTrain with YaMoRC, but that is still to be decided.
Many thanks
Gareth