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I know one or two members of this august body are closet model railway enthusiasts so I thought this might be of interest. I won't "out" those people though

I've just finished setting up my model railway controller and I have to say that, after a great deal of grief, I've managed to get rid of the conventional point switches on the control panel and they are all now operated on the touchscreen of my controller, an ESU ECoS.



In fact, this digital stuff is so clever that the point motors, which are now slow motion rather than the more conventional solenoid, actually feed back the true position of the points to the controller, so the yellow indicators on the controller track plan are always a true representation of the position of the points.

There's just something about gadgets

Now that looks very clever - for those people who like model trains of course - whoever they may be.

No idea who he is talking about Mofo....

It does look very neat....

Looks good Paul! I like it!

Something and nothing I know. But in a certain car factory in Crewe they also use ECOS, as well as pre-ECOS. So I'm sure it would be fun to use your controller to try to configure cars on the production line.

(I apologise now for irrelevant waffle).

Cough... My lads 10 months old, is it too early yet?

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aturi83 wrote:Cough... My lads 10 months old, is it too early yet?

Never too early

Just in case anybody is interested in seeing the layout this control panel is attached to.

Come on a bit since I last looked (couple of years or so ago). The level of detail is astounding (understatement).