Greetings All,
Thought I'd post what I've been upto during the southern winter. after getting back into slotting about 12 months ago I needed to move the track and wanted to try digital. The space I had to work with was long and narrow and also needed storage for track stuff and a place to work on cars erc. so thought I'd combine all the needs. And the results:
First the track layout:
With this I wanted to get a good flow with some fast straights and a mix of bends. I went two level to get the amount of track in (amout 20m) overall length of the space was about 4.5m.
The "PT" marks are power taps, 4 in all. the PB has actually been seperated from the track. I also did a simple H upgrade. The other thing i wanted was digital/analogue in the one track. so after a little trialing I came up with a relay driven switching system. There are 3 relays driven by a standard 12V supply that also becomes the seperate power supply for the lane changes when in digital mode. The main PSU is a 15V 20A suuply from DSE (Aus).
Now some Pics:
Overall View. Suppots are still preliminary as I'll likely play round with elevation a bit yet.
The left end of the track.
tuther end.
Overall View. Once I am happy with the feel of the track I'll get into scenary etc. (all new to me) the pits will be formed with a track running over the top. Not particularly real but seamed like a fun idea.
You can see the previous track was copper topped. I'll do it again with this track once I'm happy with it. I've got the silvered copper tape this time as I reckon it'll look better once I get round to painting the track.
The work space:
Wanted a space to tune & tweak close at hand but could be hiden away as the room is a shared use space. Decided on swingout doors on casters and a desk drawer.
Car storage on left (slide out draws) and spares and larger tools on right (glue gun, rotary tool).
and the slide out desk drawer.
The other tweak to date have been the circuit board entry flipper liven tweak and am currently puttng in magnets as well mostly to hold the flippers in place while in analogue mode.
Still lots more to do, but now have a good starting point.
Cheers
mondo
Thought I'd post what I've been upto during the southern winter. after getting back into slotting about 12 months ago I needed to move the track and wanted to try digital. The space I had to work with was long and narrow and also needed storage for track stuff and a place to work on cars erc. so thought I'd combine all the needs. And the results:
First the track layout:
With this I wanted to get a good flow with some fast straights and a mix of bends. I went two level to get the amount of track in (amout 20m) overall length of the space was about 4.5m.
The "PT" marks are power taps, 4 in all. the PB has actually been seperated from the track. I also did a simple H upgrade. The other thing i wanted was digital/analogue in the one track. so after a little trialing I came up with a relay driven switching system. There are 3 relays driven by a standard 12V supply that also becomes the seperate power supply for the lane changes when in digital mode. The main PSU is a 15V 20A suuply from DSE (Aus).
Now some Pics:
Overall View. Suppots are still preliminary as I'll likely play round with elevation a bit yet.
The left end of the track.
tuther end.
Overall View. Once I am happy with the feel of the track I'll get into scenary etc. (all new to me) the pits will be formed with a track running over the top. Not particularly real but seamed like a fun idea.
You can see the previous track was copper topped. I'll do it again with this track once I'm happy with it. I've got the silvered copper tape this time as I reckon it'll look better once I get round to painting the track.
The work space:
Wanted a space to tune & tweak close at hand but could be hiden away as the room is a shared use space. Decided on swingout doors on casters and a desk drawer.
Car storage on left (slide out draws) and spares and larger tools on right (glue gun, rotary tool).
and the slide out desk drawer.
The other tweak to date have been the circuit board entry flipper liven tweak and am currently puttng in magnets as well mostly to hold the flippers in place while in analogue mode.
Still lots more to do, but now have a good starting point.
Cheers
mondo