Large Scale Central

Reversing unit for On30 Shelf Unit

I’ve been up reworking my Shop/Shack all weekend, and I happened on the idea of a small’ish point to point around at least 3 of the walls to have running while the kids are up there. Maybe a Little Davenport or something like that, with a few mining cars…ULTRA-Simple…with very little cost.

I’d want to turn it on and leave it alone while I work…

any ideas? Thanks in advance!

my other thought was my HLW Mack & Bachmann track, but I’d still need a reversing unit.

Hi, Cale - if you want to build your own the controller described here does a great job:

http://www.trainelectronics.com/PicaxeSpeedController/article.htm

If you don’t care about gradual starts & stops this is a very simple solution:

http://www.trainelectronics.com/Reverse_loop_dual_coil_relay/index.htm

See the sectioned titled Simple Auto-reverse Controller

There is also a complete unit that works very well here:

http://www.trainelectronics.com/autoreverse/basic/NEW_unit.htm

The unit described there has been operating at Pittsburgh’s Children’s Hospital for nearly 3 years with nary a glitch!

Good luck & enjoy your point-to-point!

dave