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