Auto points operation.
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http://www.building-your-model-railroad.com/turnout-control.html
seems easy enough.
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Another weapon in the armoury.
Toto
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I've not even considered signals yet and if the truth be known, probably won't. I don't understand them and my layout would not be ideal I fear as there are no really long interrupted runs. Mines is mostly shunting and yard duty type operations. Never the less, once I get my head into an idea, I tend to want to know more about it whether or not I intend to adopt it myself.
I too like the idea of a fully automated points system even if it were just for my two main roundy roundy up and down lines. It's just being able to say, " I can do that "

The closest I will come to it at the moment will be route setting etc which I will try to incorporate once I've established that all my points are working well individually when I start powering up and testing, which shouldn't be to long away now.
If you get there before me with the reed switching which it sounds like you will, keep me posted as to what you manage to achieve using this technique as I am definitely interested .
Cheers for now
Toto.
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I have heard that they may be activated by the magnetism from the motor, otherwise a small magnet is required.
I have some ring magnets out of defuct micro-wave cookers. Bit big to fit onto train though. I keep them on a dowel rod in a piece of wood. Polarity is side to side, not across the diameter, so they sit there with two hovering above the third at the bottom. Must be quite powerful, nearly an inch between them.
David
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NCE DCC ; 00 scale UK outline.
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