Rigatoni Express Railroad posted:Just to be clear before I start, is the pair of red/black wires on the bottom right of the first photo spliced to the track pickup roller and to the connector that mates with the mating connector shown in the second photo.?
A little hard to see clearly in photo 1.
You do know that you can zoom in by clicking on the picture, right? FWIW, the colors actually change on the opposite ends. Not cool I know, but I had a reason. I wanted the wire to lay flat so I could tack it down neatly. Truthfully, for the rest of them I'll probably use all black wire, no real reason for colors there.
Rigatoni Express Railroad posted:I found the female connector at Allied Electronics. It's a Molex part no. 22-03-5025 at $0.06 each. Can't seem to find the Molex male complementary connector though. Any help appreciated. Joe
JST-PH, Header (male) 455-1704-ND, housing 455-1165-ND, Pins 455-2148-1-ND, all Digikey Numbers. Molex header (male) WM18886-ND, housing WM18873-ND, Pins W9661CT-ND, all Digikey numbers. I use the Engineer PA-09 crimp tool for all of the connectors.
stan2004 posted:So how's your wireless rolling stock project coming along?
The idea being the passenger car lighting can be slaved to one of the engine's light circuits. Then I could turn the Superliner door brake lights on and off under command control when the train reaches the station. You don't want to open the doors unless the brakes are set! Otherwise that's another lawsuit.
Super cool Stan, but I don't think that will happen on this iteration. If I did that, I'd probably consider pickups on a wheel and just have it red unless you stopped for several seconds. Dirt simple module, probably something like a retriggerable 555 circuit, and just let the wheel sensor trigger it.
The trick is, to have the door open when it goes green! 
