Control of turnouts remotely via the dispatcher's panel (PC's FLAT SCREEN).
Presently: The turnouts can only be thrown via the original control panel. The dispatcher's panel only indicates which way the turnouts on the mainline are thrown.
Future: With the new LCC (Layout Command Control) Tower CB (circuit board) and logic, turnouts can be thrown via the dispatcher's panel or the original control panel.
My friend Joe came over and we set up controlling the turnouts via the dispatcher's panel using LCC.
A new LCC tower circuit board was needed (temporarily hanging in the picture).
Presently, we plugged a test LED circuit board into the LCC tower to test the turnout logic.
The new LCC tower's address is 2A (as seen in the picture).
Logic created for each turnout. We completed and tested the logic for 4 turnouts on the mainline.
We can, now, just click on the turnout image on the dispatcher's panel and it sends power to that particular turnout's switch machine.
Next job: I need to replace the LED test CB with an SCSD-8 (8 output solenoid driver) CB and connect input power to it and output to each of 4 turnout switch machines.
After these 4 are done and tested, more logic and turnouts will be completed. Picture has the wiring schematic needed for each switch machine (this was part of the initial test phase).
Yellow and gray wires: 15-18 volt input.
Black: common to switch machine.
Red/white: to each side of coil.
Also, can be set up for tortoise.
