Thanks, and that will be done soon. should be ready this weekend. Mostly going to be based on my LC Gateway Code.
I'm glad I got this portion of the hardware straightened out first. I had an issue where I tried using a relay to trigger the e-unit with a relay but it ended up drawing too much power from my board. So I ended up building another solid state solution from scratch. (As a bonus, the custom solution actually takes less space anyway.)
And as we can see from the video, a section of my e-unit drum is dirty so I would like to fix that too. I already tried cleaning it with alcohol once but it seems the fingers of the e-unit itself might be dirty. Maybe some super fine sandpaper can solve that.
After I get Bluetooth up and running I have to build an e-unit position detection circuit to know if the train is currently in forward, reverse, or neutral. This will be critical.
Question, and forgive me, I'm not familiar with electronics, software development etc.
Would an electronic reverse board (like the ones you can get from Bachman for the Williams line) be better/easier than the old e-units?
