A simple question - I hope someone knows the answer !!

Can I use a Lenz LS150 accessory decoder to drive servo point motors and if so, how ?

Would it be worth buying an accessory decoder specifically designed for servos, for example the Dijikeijs DR4024?They cost about the same that LS150s fetch on Ebay
 
When I decided to replace my Peco PL-10s operated by LS150s with Tortoise slow-motion motors, I considered using the LS150s, but decided instead to replace the LS150s with NCE Switch-8s. The prices I obtained for the LS150s just about matched the cost of the Switch-8s so it seemed a good move to me. 

[user=6]Petermac[/user] wrote:

A simple question - I hope someone knows the answer !!

Can I use a Lenz LS150 accessory decoder to drive servo point motors and if so, how ?

Yes, Peter - here's how . . .

Lenz Owners Manual: LS150 Turnout Decoder

Cheers
Max

A better way would be to use Ocotocoders.

But I guess that you already have the 150's.

Thanks Robert and Max.

As you so rightly say Max, I already have the LS 150's - 4 of them and, as I use the Lenz system, it would seem to make sense to stick with it.  Also, I'm not at all sure how much demand there is here for model railway stuff - it seems much easier in UK although I admit, I've never tried to sell anything here …………….

Swapping them for a servo driver is a possibility Robert but, given the above,  maybe only as a last resort …………

It's new ground for me (the servo/LS150 combination) and is prompted by the fact that I think one of the coils on a SEEP motor has burnt out.  It switches one way but not back again …………….  I have yet to bench test it but I'm gradually being crippled by trying to work under the baseboards.  Having read about several modellers kicking solenoids into touch, and given that Tortoise motors are currently a bit like hen's teeth, I wondered about my servos ………….

I know you used servos Max but I think, maybe not with the LS150.

I had read the Lenz manual but it doesn't (as far as I could see) specifically mention servos - just slow-mo motors like the Tortoise. I had installed those on the old Maxmill with great success but don't have any more in stock.  When I compare the two types, the Tortoise has a 2 wire system - 1 wire is connected to the common return on the LS150 and the other to a couple of opposing diodes - 1 each to the + and - on the LS 150.  Servos have 3 wires ………………..   I presume the common again goes to the centre terminal on the LS 150 but how would I connect the other 2 wires ?

I do have a Megapoints system sitting in a box awaiting use on the top deck.  I had considered using this here - my system has a capacity of 24 points but it is ideally, reserved for the future "upper level" where I wanted to use a few outlets for points and others for operating semaphore signals …………………

If you could point me in the right direction regarding the 3 servo wires Max, I'd be eternally grateful ……………. :roll: