Dynamis & R406 Hornby Accessory Decoder - Signal Lighting

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Brendan11

Discussion Starter · Nov 14, 2008

hiya group, I managed to get my R406 Hornby colour signal lights working with the R8247 Accessory decoder - there on continually and change red to green no probs

- thanks for all your advice, I'm chuffed it works.

However on one decoder output I attached a Berko B303 (red/green) Light Signaling Twin Platform hoping for the same result. It has 3 wires just like hornbys R406. Problem is I could only get one light to work, and could'nt toggle between coloured lights as I could with the R406. Swithing the wires resulted in the other light working - but the same problem of not been able to toggle occurs.

The Berko 303's use LED's and have a resistor on the wiring.

Any advice or suggestions to get the Berko 303 toggling between red/green would be very welcome. Thx Bren

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zmil

· #2 · Nov 14, 2008

Hi Brendan

The LED lights are dependent on the polarity of the voltage they receive
So with the 3 wires one is probably a common +ve (or a common -ve)

They should work OK on AC power as well (only working when the voltage is the right polarity , but to fast to notice the "off" period)

How are you powering the accessories from the decoder?

Regards Zmil

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Brendan11

Discussion Starter · #3 · Nov 14, 2008

Hi Zmil,

thanks for the info.

the hornby accessory decoder is powered from the dcc track, which in turn powers the 4 outlets, at present have 2 hornby R406 colour signals working fine on 2 outlets.

Bren

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