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Threw my first turnout from a PC last night!

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Posted by NP01 on Friday, May 17, 2013 10:22 PM

A little update. I bought a 36-conductor flat ribbon cable (28 gauge) for wiring that pesky connector on the SE8C and now 5 turnouts are in business. I created a "panel" too. I was delighted to see that WiThrottle for iPad shows all the turnouts in thei natural names and I can throw them from the iPad. 

Pretty neat. 

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Posted by Train Modeler on Thursday, April 18, 2013 9:42 AM

Got to love what we can do today, thank you JMRI.

Richard

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Posted by Alantrains on Thursday, April 18, 2013 3:26 AM

There is nothing like the  sense of achievement that this and other PC successes give you when it works. A magic moment that not everyone understands.

Now to confront other challanges.

Well done!

Alan Jones in Sunny Queensland (Oz)

 

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 12:03 PM

Old dogs, new tricks?  I installed my first stationary decoder for the Tortoise-controlled turnouts at my carfloat terminal a few weeks back.  I've been throwing turnouts with control-panel toggles for half a century or more, so it was fun to try something new.

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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Posted by dexterdog on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:34 AM

WOOT!!

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Posted by tstage on Monday, April 15, 2013 10:32 AM

I once threw a boxcar across the room from my work bench...

https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling

Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.

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Threw my first turnout from a PC last night!
Posted by NP01 on Monday, April 15, 2013 8:22 AM

I finally installed track on my "Brendam Docks" module, bench work has been in place no one for 4-6 weeks. Then hurried through 1-2 tortoise installs (admittedly I have forgotten that efficient process I got so good at on my first install of 18 units). An SE8C and a few minutes of panel pro later ...

Click of mouse ---> whrrrr of tortoise

Click of mouse ----> whrrr of tortoise

Nice sounds!

NP

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