zeroOneman Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 After many hours of frustration I have finally got my railway operating using block detection.The controller is still elink/railmaster. I Now have my new signal decoder detecting block occupancy, setting signals to danger & clearing them automatically & setting braking modules with the signals so that the trains stop at signals when they are set to danger - the signals can still be set & cleared from railmaster, but will automatically revert back to danger when blocks are occupied. This is all done with a single Arduino controlling 5 signals - I have built two more decoders to control the remaining areas of the layout, but haven't wired them in yet.full details can be found at https://shedendrly.wordpress.com//media/tinymce_upload/b6017ccb6efb77f83a1b4ccfcef1a944.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissaf Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 Good work Zero1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Friendly Fryer Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 I wish I had though of that, so fine work Zero 1. I worked on the rocket car challenge with Thrust SSC a few years ago and we used IR sensors for that and tracked students cars at 80mph actual not scale speed with no problem. I am also interested in RFID sensors though the readers have to be pretty closed to the tokens. So thanking for igniting my interest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeroOneman Posted August 8, 2020 Author Share Posted August 8, 2020 i guess you're referring to the speed detector that i posted on the site yesterday? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeroOneman Posted August 28, 2020 Author Share Posted August 28, 2020 this afternoon, just to see what would happen, I tried running three trains on the clockwise loop... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB51 Posted August 29, 2020 Share Posted August 29, 2020 Wow, very impressive. R- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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