Luib Bridge

I have pinched deans connectors when I was up Helping Paul. ...... Dunno if helping is the right word.

Got some good ideas for legs for Luib bridge from Vicky Road so you know what's coming next.

On the agenda is ........ In no particular order ...... Install a UTP, link cab cable, links between the two baseboards for the track BUS and turnout polarity links to the switch 8 for two turnouts.install a set of legs with bolts etc ....... Hopefully switch on and ....... Hey presto. A very rough but running layout.

I may get time through the week ( depending on what time I get home at ) to tackle some of these jobs one at a time.

There we have it.

Cheers

Toto

 

Thank you Sir. That's hopefully Saturdays job. Amongst the others. However, connection of the stuff I've not yet done, trans baseboard links, isolating copper clad, initial power up, programming of switch 8 etc etc are all on the cards.

Exciting or wot

 

Well,

Finally got round to ordering my platform walls from Townstreet.

A set of six lengths, two ramps and four straights at 9 inches long each gives 4 foot six. They all interlock in place so there is no obvious join or whatever.

£22.50 plus postage.

Not bad considering it's O gauge. They paint up very well as do all there products.

 

Tomorrow's or should I say todays tasks will be continuing with my electrics. However ..... domestics first. Pick up Buddha from post office, drop car of for MOT, go and get SWMBO's birthday pressie ( 26th of month ). Then ....... and only then I can get to the shed.
Sunday ...... go to dragon and laws and put up two curtain rails, fix wall clock back on wall ( she's had the decorators in ) and source suitable YUASA back up battery for her house alarm. I took it out last week when all hell let loose. It wasn't recharging. well ....... it was about 15 years ago when I installed the alarm and the battery is only meant to last 5. not bad really.
Now, I have to remember how to go through all the settings for setting the alarm back up again. ........ and the instructions are long gone.
Did someone mention modeling.

 

Hi Gary / Paul,
thats similar to what I have at the moment Gary but Paul and I reckoned that maybe a more reliable full time feed to the bridge itself would be better,
https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/electrical-capsule-slip-ring_910315114.html
The above is what I have just ordered ..... well thats not the exact one but its similar with nthe same spec ....... 2A loading and the physical size is the same with a 13mm depth for the bush.
Whilst my pushy inny bits work the same as yours, I'm not overly confident on the electrical conductivity, so the doofery thing will be a belt and braces measure.
I've also sent for a polarity reverser ( PSX - AR ) which will be used in conjunction with the doofer. I rekindled the idea after reading Peter's Marsden thread. ............ Wait until I get my hands on him !!!!!!
I am also thinking of wiring the last set of switches on my cobalts up to either a NCE Aux panel or a NCE mini panel to automate the points to either my power cab or JMRI. I have both the devices going spare at the moment.
There will be an element of learning curve to programme these to talk to each other through the various interfaces ( Paul ) but to be honest, with a little advice from the Messiah I think I'll get it. The NCE kit has been reasonably straight forward to date. ( with the odd tantrum thrown in for good measure along the way ).
cheers for now
Toto

 

Still awaiting my bits and bobs from coastal DCC. Hopefully arrive soon.

Was in the shed tonight looking out my clamps as I am on with the hotel build for Victoria a Road. ...... Well we'll wait and see how it turns out.

Could be faulty towers.

Cheers

Toto

 

Carded by the postman today so something's arrived, just dunno what. Trip to the collection office first thing tomorrow.

Toto

 

Hit the post office ........ PSX - AR now in my stock drawer.

Now just a UTP to come.

Toto.

 

The PSX - AR

Dunno if that's loaded. Working from my I Pad

Let's try

 

No ...... It's not. I'll send it via my PC later ...... Worth a try.

Toto

 

OK after a bit of a wait,Ok
the PSX AR


and today my UTP panel thingy bobber arrived as well.


and there we have it
cheers
toto

 

Neither do I.

Just joking ( but admittedly quite believable )

The PSX AR does a couple of things. Initially although not strictly what I bought it for it will act as a protection circuit for Luib bridge ( given the loads that some loco's could potentially try and pull through the layout ) so ...... It's a circuit breaker just like the PSX 's that John Dew advised to protect Rosebuddy with.

Secondly ..... The A R tag on the end is for Auto Reverser. Which you will probably now is for reversing the polarity of circuits, especially where you have a Wye or a turntable or a reversing loop which can have the potential to short circuit due to polarity changes.

This circuitry automatically detects this happening and swithches the polarity for you ( no need for switches or other gizzmo's to be switched manually ) before it has the ability for the short to cut out the circuit.

I don't know if I have explained it 100 % technically correct but that's my understanding of it.

The UTP panel is a method of connecting your Power cab to the layouts BUS just like the PCP that you will have been supplied with when you bought your power an.

So I hear you say ....... Why not just use the PCP that came with your power cab toto. Well ...... As you know Gary ....... Nothing ever that simple in my world.

I am connecting a 5 amp power booster to Luib Bridge in order to provide enough power to the beast. My O Gauge class 25 and that changes the rules a bit. In order to wire the power booster up and leave enough ways etc for the handset and link cables etc a UTP rather than a PCP is now required. Paul will explain it better as no doubt I will have missed out some critical piece of information.

So anyway. That's about it. There will be a little reading required in order to ensure that everything is wired in the correct order but to be honest they are reasonably well chronicled in the instructions and like any protection circuit whether in a house or on a model railway circuit it's pretty obvious where in the circuit it needs to be connected in order to do ite job and " protect the circuit. The auto reverser element of it is quite straight forward as that will be fed up through the centre column of my turntable ( hence the need for the roundy conductive bearing thingy that I have sent away for ) and fed to the track above to provide it power and work it's magic.

I trust I have suitably confused you with my mutterings.

Cheers toto

PS back on to getting Luib Bridge wired up gizzmo's and all once Dundee is over. Looking forward to it.

 

That was done long time ago at the planning stages dafty.
Anyway ...... hopefully now we are in the aftermath of the Dundee exhibition, Luib Bridge may appear from the shed next weekend for some electrical progress.
still mending my feet from this weekend.
I'll need to tidy away the exhibition stuff to be able to move in the shed again.
cheers
toto