hi ,does anyone control either of these signals with one of these,either mth or lionel itad ? I have tried many different ways to activate these with one of these,,,,,any other suggestions,,,,i really don't want to use lockons as I use std fasttrack,any help i'd will appreciate also, any other device from someone else that's kinda easy!!
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The Lionel 153IR could control the #80. It has a simple NO/NC relay for on/off type control.
Connect the accessory power transformer to the A & U of the 153IR.
Connect the GND wire of the #80 to the acc gnd terminal.
Connect the wire that lights the green lamp and semaphore up to the NC terminal
Connect the wire that lights the red lamp, semaphore down to the NO terminal.
The last thing to do will be to set the timer to a time that you like.
Aspect up, green light, train may proceed. Train trigger IR when passing, aspect down, red light. Following train must stop.
Timer will hold this position until the train is the desired distance past the IR and will then return the aspect to green. I suspect this should be short to prevent damaging the coil. It could be 0 seconds delay and would turn green once the train clears.
Adjust the sensitivity for good detection. Start at zero and work it up. The timer may have to be at 1-3 seconds if the gap between cars loses the beam. Then, the engine would start the timer and hold until the train passed.
This imitates train signaling without actual train control of any following train.
see the attached wiring diagram which references use with a modern semaphore.
How do you want the #99 to work?
The MTH repro with timer uses insulated rails and creates a train stop action.
Having three aspects, yellow would be on, red when train is detected and stops, green when power is restored and the train proceeds.
If you only want it to light, follow the diagram for the #80 with a 153IR, but connect both the yellow and green to the NC contact, indicating proceed at restricted speed and the red to the normally open, signaling a following a train to stop when the 153IR detects the train.
Creating insulated rails is easy with FasTrack by removing ground bars on the bottom and the pins from the ends of the rail. You can also use the 6-12060 5" track on either end of the detection section and pull wires to create the isolated rails.
Oops! Do you mean RealTrax Std. Gauge?
Then you could implement train detection and control with the #80 or #99 connected using Dale's methods.
thanks guys will try later today,,,
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