I was thinking of buying some signals from WEHONEST_CN on the Bay and was wondering how I would Have to wire them to a SuperSnap switch to indicate Turnout-position. I was thinking Green= Normal and Red=Reverse and then I'd use the yellow aspect to indicate if the block ahead had power going to it for safer train meets.
Green to ?
Yellow to Track
Red to ?
Black to ground
Any ideas would be appreciated, -Jon
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Are these switches capable of lighting up a signal??? If not, then you might want to use the Atlas Snap relays, they will light up your signals. Are the signals LED and how much voltage can they handle???
Marty
I don't know if they are or not, they light a controller so I think I could.The bulbs are low draw LEDs so draw shouldnt be a concern since the switch would only tecnically be lighting one of them at any one time.
I was thinking of buying some signals from WEHONEST_CN on the Bay and was wondering how I would Have to wire them to a SuperSnap switch to indicate Turnout-position. I was thinking Green= Normal and Red=Reverse and then I'd use the yellow aspect to indicate if the block ahead had power going to it for safer train meets.
Green to ?
Yellow to Track
Red to ?
Black to ground
Any ideas would be appreciated, -Jon
You will need something to generate a logic signal from a block detector that you can use to drive the signals. LED signals are easy to drive but you need to take care to isolate the DC needed to drive the LEDs from the track power. That could be something as simple as some discrete components to relays or a microprocessor.
-Mark
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