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6100 Remote Tortoise Mount and peco dbl crossover ?
6100 Remote Tortoise Mount and peco dbl crossover ?
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spectratone
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October 2005
From: California City
199 posts
6100 Remote Tortoise Mount and peco dbl crossover ?
Posted by
spectratone
on Sunday, April 30, 2006 8:14 AM
Has anybody posted pictures of how the 6100 remote mount and a peco double crossover should be hooked up? Do you need only one 6100 to make all four turnouts opperate at the same time? Or am I have to pull out the rube goldburg book for ideas? this is N scale, peco code 55, over 2 inch foam.
thanks
glenn
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Jacktal
Member since
October 2002
From: City of Québec,Canada
1,258 posts
Posted by
Jacktal
on Sunday, April 30, 2006 10:28 PM
I can't see how a double crossover can be powered by a single motor,be it a Tortoise or else.You'd need a quite fancy linkage system to do so and yet I have serious doubt that the motor would be strong enough to work reliably.Peco's are designed to be operated by four PL-10's linked in parallel,which is in my mind the simplest and most reliable way to go.It may seem expensive,but not more than four individual turnouts,which the DCO replaces.Most certainly,you can substitute Tortoise's but you'll still need four unless you like engineering challenges.
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