old relic Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 just purchased a select controller, i understand the amount of trains it will run, but i cannot understand the number of points it can control, is it 4 or 40. The layout ive got in mind will have seven points.also being a novice how many will work off one decoder, i assume i will require 7 point motors.Any feedback would be greatly appriciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St1ngr4y Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 just purchased a select controller, i understand the amount of trains it will run, but i cannot understand the number of points it can control, is it 4 or 40. The layout ive got in mind will have seven points.also being a novice how many will work off one decoder, i assume i will require 7 point motors.Any feedback would be greatly appriciated.Hello from another old relic :-)The Hornby decoder is R8247 and it has 4 ports, allowing control of 4 points. There are other decoders available, which have 2, 4 or 8 ports. Another factor to consider is how far apart the points are on the layout. If there are three or four grouped together, it would be handy to try to connect all them to a 4-port decoder. If there are two points by themselves, a 2-port decoder may be better.Ray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishmanoz Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 The Select can control points and accessories numbered from 60-99, so 39 in total. And as Ray says, they must each be connected to an accessory decoder to pass the signals from the Select to the point motor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishmanoz Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Admin, another one for moving to DCC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old relic Posted February 22, 2015 Author Share Posted February 22, 2015 Thanks Ray, that does help me alot,thanks for taking the time to reply.Roy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old relic Posted February 22, 2015 Author Share Posted February 22, 2015 so, would buying two decoders be the best way of doing it and could i run two decoders off the select.Thanks for your reply Roy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDS Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 ... i assume i will require 7 point motors ...You will need a Point Motor for each point but as has been said above, you can control up to 8 Point Motors from one decoder, or where Points need to be switched together, you can wire 2 points into the same decoder port. In that case and depending on your layout, you may get away with just One 4 Port Decoder. (For example, I have 28 points, controlled by just Four, 4 Port Decoders) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old relic Posted February 22, 2015 Author Share Posted February 22, 2015 ..Thankyou very much, your comments are most helpfulRoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2e0dtoeric Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Another one to move to the DCC threads - and - old relic - when you make a reply to a comment, scroll down to the white box below - and type in there, then click the GREEN reply button. If you type in the other bit and use the blue button, the bits of messages get mixed up, and confuse everybody! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old relic Posted February 22, 2015 Author Share Posted February 22, 2015 I apologise to all the people i have confused, the layout points to hitting the blue button when replying to someones help,the green button points to someone replying to my request of help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 The blue button is used if you want to reply to a direct bit of discussion someone has posted, but you are advised to crop out unwanted text else the forum ends up repeating itself over and over and becomes hard to follow.By using the green button you are obviously replying outside the detailed discussion, but by careful use of words you can refer back to what you need to without all the yellow box repetition.This is a green button reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 I apologise to all the people i have confused, the layout points to hitting the blue button when replying to someones help,the green button points to someone replying to my request of help And this is a blue button reply... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 I apologise to all the people i have confused, the layout points to hitting the blue button when replying to someones help,the green button points to someone replying to my request of help And this is a blue button reply... And this is a second blue button reply, so you can see the difference... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 And this is a blue button reply... And this is a second blue button reply, so you can see the difference... And this is a third blue button reply with your origianl text deleted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old relic Posted February 22, 2015 Author Share Posted February 22, 2015 Thanks a lot for clearing that up, i was begining to doubt my abilities, and a big thankyou to the forum members who earliar answered my question Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishmanoz Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Or, to answer your question on the number of decoders you can connect to the Select, you could connect 10 of them if you had 39 points to control. You can only ever throw one point at a time with the Select so all the decoders and point motors will be sitting drawing very little current except the decoder and motor attached to the point you are throwing. It's very similar to the number of locos you can run. You can have as many as you like sitting on the layout but you can only have 3-4 actually running at once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old relic Posted February 23, 2015 Author Share Posted February 23, 2015 Thankyou for that advice, very much appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael_A Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Simple answer: The Select will operate up to 39 points by using up to 10 seperate Hornby Decoders. (Each Hornby decoder drives four point motors, one point motor is required for each point in used) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Simple answer: The Select will operate up to 39 points by using up to 10 seperate Hornby Decoders. (Each Hornby decoder drives four point motors, one point motor is required for each point in used) Unless you have any ports doubled up for say a cross over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne2467 Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 just set up the Duke of Gloucester to the Select but on programming the horn, I initially get the sound but then no horn after this. any ideas anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poliss Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 It's best to start your own topic for a new subject Wayne, or the answers get mixed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishmanoz Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 And little point in posting this 3 times Wayne, once will get you your answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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