Hi Geoff when switching the points under dc there were wired together in parrellel and with the cdu they fired fine.

Im not sure about putting a CDU with a switchpilot accesory decoder obviously you are able to that with the Ztc one.

Everywhere ive looked in the past has said you cant use CDu`s with things like accesory decoders but with your ZTC ones you have proved you can .

I like the idea but am unsure if i will blow up the switchpilot

Brian

Hi Brian

I think Geoffs use of the CDU with the SwitchPilot is a no no, but using a CDU with a SwitchPilot Extn unit could be a different matter.

As Geoff suggests, using 1 motor to switch the 2 points with wire in tube and maybe a couple cranks (should I have put that?) would be another way and iTrain can handle that on the Switchboard indication of the point settings.

Are you trying to save a SwitchPilot position or just to have 1 button/switch to operate? Depending on how you want to configure iTrain you can have one touch to set both points with their own motors but using 2 SwP outlets.

If as a temporary measure you want to use the ECoS Accessory Panel for switching and have 2 SwP outlets available then you could use the Single or Double Slip (4-way) which will fire the motors 1 after the other.
Just use the 2 positions that apply to your needs.
If you do that remember the 2nd address has to be consecutive within the same Group i:e 1+2 2+3 or 3+4

Chris

Brian, Masterswitches do work but they do need at least a minimum 15 V REGULATED 3 amps, ideally 18v regulated 3 amp source -  an ordinary un-regulated source NBG.

The reasoning behind using the switchpilot was i had a spare ouput so thats why i originally thought about using the masterswitch to switch the 2 points.

For the moment i will leave them on the dc panel as they work fine on that all i will do is get another ls 150 at some point as is still have about 10 points still under dc but they are in areas that are not heavily used TMD and MPD and are wired to the dc panel All other points i think its 50 of them are now under dcc control.

The 2 points in question are about 8 feet apart so Geoffs wire in tube method would not be practical in this situation

IF you look at the trackplan below it is the pair of points that are the cross over which is elevated just right of the MPD

At the moment its a minor problem but i do have a solution.

Ron i did use a laptop supply when i did the testing i actually believe my masterswitches are stuffed although they is nothing visably burnt.



One of my next experiments will be convert my Heljan DC turntable to DCC

Brian