I Have also been asking Paco about a modififed version of his decoder. I have in mind to use thinner wire, to bend the wire into a zig-zag shape and to use a different decoder or to modify the one, I am using. For the time being, all my three turnouts are functional. I need to find a better and easier solution before I go on “servofying” more turnouts.īut that will have to be later. Until further, I have been fiddling it to work by finetuning the length of the wire, so that the turnout just exactly functions. Had it been possible for the wire to bend a bit, if the servo movement was beyond the end-point of the turnout, it would have been a bit less of a problem. It is a bit too stiff with it’s 1 mm diameter, and I have not managed to bend into a zig-zag shape. The problem gets worse, because my piano wire does not have any softness. Not the A and B end-points individually, which puts a demand on me to place the servo very precise in the middle so that the two end-points of the servo fits exactly with those of the turnout. And Paco’s decoder only permits to adjust the total movement of the servo. It requires a tiny bit more movement on the servo to push the mechanism to it’s endpoint. The problem seems to be that the mechanics is a tiny bit different in exactly that turnout. It moves a milimeter less than it should to one side. Even though the wire is no longer making trouble, the turnout does not switch perfectly. The old wire is on the table next to the turnout.īUT: There is still a problem with the very same turnout. The old wire has the “eye” to one side of the wire, which made it jump of. It seems to be extremely important that the “eye” on the wire in the turnout end is in line with the wire itself, as is the case with the new wire seen mounted on the turnout on the picture below. I probably have to take the servo of and bend a new piece of wire and mount it all from the beginning. This piano wire problem simply got to be solved. I am having mechanical problems with one of my three turnouts: The piano wire is jumping of. And every now and then, I see de-railments due to RocRail dispatching a train through a turnout that is not done switching. And even then, it is very random where the locomotive stops in a block. However, it does not yet work with longer trains. With the new C-track, it did not take me long to get automated train control via RocRail. It looks like RocRail is much more stable. Medio and ultimo October 2014: New program for the PC: RocRail:
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