Luib Bridge

phew ....... glad it makes sense to someone ...... Upwards and onwards ...... time for baseboard two and I have the wiring dressed in place .....

I just need to bare the main Track BUS in the various locations, wrap the track feeds around and solder on. Same as baseboard one .

so .... time to get on with it again. see you soon ........

toto

 

Here we are, all the track feed ends made off ......

and more .....

and the long shot ....

The soldering iron is heating up as I type ready to solder these little suckers in place. Then its time for crimping the main track BUS ends then moving on to the switch 8 and main feed complete with circuit breaker.

back soon.

cheers

toto

 

And the soldering of the track droppers is complete ......

and all the crimps are on .........

so,

Its time to move on and start getting the main track feed and turnouts sorted out along with their associated doobries.

isn't this great fun ........

cheers for now

toto

 

and you wont have to wait for long ....... here are is the rear of the UTP.

When I connect the controller up tomorrow I'll try and explain the cabling.

and I've mounted the switch 8 and circuit breaker ready for wiring.......

again I'll explain some of the wiring as and when I do it. Probably tomorrow now as I am starting tom wain a little ..... maybe the beer.

cheers for now.

toto

 

Had to give Paul a loco height for his current bridge buils so I thought I'd take a quick photo opportunity whilst I had this out the box .......

my Heljan Hymek ........ and another ......

that's it folks. Just a wee chuck in.

cheers

toto

 

I'm on a bit of a roll ....... long may it last. More tomorrow or should that be today. I'm hoping to get power to the steels. May even get the turnouts working. Oooooooo

cheers

toto

 

Ahhhh ...... But yours is proper DCC. A two wire system ....... Literally. Or was it four ........ At a push. Some folks opt for the easy option. Still ...... One word ....... Traversers ....... Now the pressure is on. We only need three for Elgin and two for Dundee. No time for slacking now.

 

His nibs must still be in his kip. Nevermind, I'm up sharpish this morning thanks to Lulu. Couple of chores to do before I hit the shed today.

I have a wedding to go to when I am in Cyprus this year so I need a new suit. It's either that or it's the kilt. Maybe a bit warm for wearing that so I'll take a suit with me just in case. I have three or four suits but they are working suits so I'm out today for a new one. I'll buy one that will do work when I return home so a nice new smart business suit is the order of the day. I'm thinking three piece, dark Navy blue, nice new crisp white shirt with a gold tie. My Ted Baker Chelsea boots ( which I've had stashed away ) they are a rich Oxblood colour.

Anyway, get that out the way then ........ My electrics beckon. I'll be starting off wiring the circuit breaker to the main track BUS. Easy, two wires. That in turn is wired back to the controller.

Next up, wiring the turnouts back to the switch 8 ( I should say Cobalts which I've yet to install ) . Then a pair of wires ( a feed and neutral ) from the track BUS back to each switch 8 as well. The polarity wires from the turnouts also go back to the cobalt.

Each cobalt ends up with five wires. A pair of wires to power the cobalt itself which in turn, operate the Cobalts motor mechanism, and a pair of wires from the track BUS which gives the positive / negative to switch through the polarity wire to the turnouts Vee point. That leaves a spare single pole two way switch on the cobalt that could be used for operating a signal or whatever.

I will undoubtably ( on switching on the controller ) have shorts here there and everywhere. So, my favourite job ( not ) of checking the polarities between points etc are not conflicting and making sure I have the necessary isolation joints in place. I also still have two sets of brass screws to switch out at the inter baseboard track joints.

So, that's where we are at today.

I'll post up any progress as I go as usual.

Cheers for now

Toto

 

Not sure. I'll need to check.

 

Picked up brass screws. Had to go to B & Q for them as tool station never had them. Extorsion but had no choice.

Toto

 

I've got one. they are still over priced. Not bad on sheet products like ply or MDF. You get a bit of a saving.

cheers

toto

 

Well,

battling on ......

More wiring done. This time I am wiring for the point motors. Both the switch 8 side of things ( light gauge wire used here ) and the BUS feed and polarity bale which is wired in heavier gauge wire. I've also wired the circuit breaker into the system as well.

not the clearest of pictures but there are three heavy duty cables, one red and black from the track BUS, one green from the Vee of the turnout frog. there is a further two light gauge cables, one green and one white which go back to the switch 8 which takes the commend to switch the point from the command station. So that acts as a bit of a decoder.

and there is the switch 8 with four sets of wires, one for each point. there is still one more set to be wired in from baseboard number to.

and the circuit breaker which has a set of heavy gauge wires running from its output terminals to the two track BUS cables. This should detect any overload in current draw should it happen and switch down the whole layout before anything fries. ......... hopefully.

I'll connect up the switch 8 next and start fitting the Cobalts and connect them in too. After that I turn my attention to baseboard number two which has one set of points which needs to be wired back to the switch 8 as well. Then we will be ready for switch on ........

So ..... you can guess what I'm doing tonight then.

cheers

toto

 

The switch 8 is now wired up ........

although I have just noticed that I have not wired the supply to it ...... you will notice the two cables, one red and one black leading to nowhere. They need to come out and a new supply wired back to the track BUS. OK then ........ lets get it done.

cheers

toto

 

track BUS duly wired to the switch 8 and connected both ends.

that's it for tonight.

cheers

toto