{"id":627,"date":"2022-01-11T01:44:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T15:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/?p=627"},"modified":"2022-01-11T19:04:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T09:04:59","slug":"historical-note-1-successful-first-installation-of-a-devices-group-in-the-turnout-control-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/11\/historical-note-1-successful-first-installation-of-a-devices-group-in-the-turnout-control-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Note #1: Successful First Installation of a Group of Devices in the Turnout Control System"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tonight I installed the first Snap-It Accessory Decoder and it actually worked!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore it was not a standard Peco point motor installation. It was a Kato crossover using:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Track Power from a Tam Valley 12v 5amp Accessory Booster<\/li><li>Kato Scissors Crossing (with 4 point motors) Turnout<\/li><li>NCE Snap-It Single Module<\/li><li>External 470u 25v Capacitor added to the NCE Snap-It<\/li><li>DCC Concepts DCD-SDC adapter from 3 wire to Kato 2 wire<\/li><li>Single Pole Momentary contact micro switch<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The turnout responded 100% correctly once I added the extra 470u capacitor. The Turnout is switched by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Toggling the momentary contact toggle switch <strong>OR<\/strong><\/li><li>Selecting Accessory Decoder 171 on the NCE Power Pro Hammer Head<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Still to install in this first &#8220;Turnout Control System&#8221; process:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Gaugemaster GM500 Self Latching Relay <\/li><li>Two 3mm LEDs on the control panel to indicate which route has been thrown<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I installed the first Snap-It Accessory Decoder and it actually worked! Furthermore it was not a standard Peco point motor installation. It was a Kato crossover using: Track Power from a Tam Valley 12v 5amp Accessory Booster Kato Scissors Crossing (with 4 point motors) Turnout NCE Snap-It Single Module External 470u 25v Capacitor added [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n-scale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}