QUOTE (Doug @ 11 Nov 2008, 22:14)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Well I suppose that that's one way of looping the locos.
Are these yours? If so, what is switching them?
Yes, this is mine. I was hoping to have the loops complete for Christmas but I did not take into account quite how complicated building the layout was going to be. Still, I've started now, spent a fortune so no backing out!
There are pics of the detectors in my blog together with a big box of Masterswitch V2s. The detectors are Heathcote Electronic IRDOT-P detectors and I have a timer which I think is to stop the locos miss-firing the detectors. These act as the switches that send the pulse to the Masterswitch to change both points for the passing loop. I will have one switch in my switch box that will control manual/auto operation.
I had a few teething troubles with miss fires and the wrong loco moving forward and at one point both locos moving which technically should be impossible but I ran them for a while last night and they seemed to work OK. I am using the 59 and 66 as guinea pigs being the cheaper models I have and I can cope with the odd graze on them.