Railway Points or turn outs

Hi I am a amateur at this but have managed to build a control panel to run my trains. I now need to be able to switch 20 or more points from the panel ????? How do I go about it and what switches do I use. Thanks Dave

Posted by dave on 30/06/2004, at 06:45 GMT

Railway Points- Multiple Operation.

I would operate the points through a capacitor discharge unit. This unit charges up a large value capacitor (10000uf 40v-63v) via a constant current circuit thats is set so that the charging current is unlikely to burn out the point motor solenoid. I would also use a separate transformer 50-60VA from the 12v transformer/controllers.

Posted by Robert Neill (varient412@yahoo.co.uk) on 29/10/2010, at 12:43 GMT