Been working on electrical implementation this past week. Where I have concentrated my efforts was in the roundhouse track power control. I have an esp32 development board accepting input from either a push button switch or aiu channel. Then that has a wireless connection to a remote esp8266-12E development board controlling a relay board with eight relays to turn on and off power to the future eight roundhouse tracks. My intent is to use similar setups for overall block power control, turnout control, block occupancy detection and signal control. Tested transmission distance of over 40 feet. specs. I believe are 250' so it should be good when decking and other obstacles try to block the signal. These micro controllers are great for this purpose. Not much schematic to post as I am using development boards off the self and an ebay relay board with eight relays. Other areas may only need two or four relays, this will be designed on an as needed basis. My hope is to implement block power first and see how these all play nice with the total of 35 blocks to control. This may need to have its own topic so it can be easily found... thoughts anyone?
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