Late last year Bob decided we should motorise the dock gates.. (How cool is that!) After much deliberation and a visit to one show or another we were introduced to the delights of MERG their servo control kit looked an ideal solution to moving the gates.
Bob turned his had to electronics built the kit and purchased some servos from ebay (yes they did arrive).
At last I get to do something I installed the servo set software and we go about test programming the servos. The software is less than intuitive and after some clowning around we have a historic movement of a servo. Strangely though the servos appears to have a mind of its own, jumping about all over the place. At this rate the dock gates will be all over the place....!
The issue is solved when we replace the bits of wire we were pretending were switches with the real thing.
Open the switch it swings one way at the first speed, close and it returns to its start place at the other speed.
Magic
DCC Corner is now replaces by Automation corner.....
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