Hi all I am considering not detecting the following blocks on my layout unless someone knows a reason why I should. 7 single ended terminal tracks at Chicago....
Jay: What you are describing would probably be detected on the prototype as "approach blocks" to interlockings. The reason they would be detected is to show...
All: For signalling purposes, I need detection on a wye. Because of the reverse loop, this requires 2 DCCOD detectors (one on the main and one on the...
... Yes, you should be able to wire the two outputs in parallel. But, for the cost of one more SMINI input line, you could wire them up separately, just in...
Hello Jay, I have only one question: Can you see the cars on the tracks by yourself? Perhaps it is not necessary. If not, you need detection.!you never can...
Dan: Thanks for answering... I will try hooking both to one input. My problem is I designed myself into a bit of a corner... I will have 5 SMINI nodes for...
Jeff, Would it work if you loop the return wires from both sections through the DCCOD input transformer? Of course, they might cancel each other out, but you...
Jay, Here is what I did in what seems a similar situation: I have a terminal with three stub tracks on a single lead track, plus several through tracks. I...
Jeff The outputs are open collectors so therefore you can tie them to one input line. either detector goes low and pulls the line low else just an open...
Gentlemen, et al., I'm coming to a part of my software where I need to start writing some mean communication routines. I'm really at a loss to how the computer...
... (NS), ETX ... Dear Darrin: I appreciate your desire to really understand the details concerning how the computer talks to the SMINI. However, I really...
To Darrin and everyone, When I was debugging my DOUT Test Program, I followed Bruce's best advice, I listed to the printer every OB(x) byte. I spent the time...
Darrin, ... When I became convinced that the best and most flexible way to signal my layout, the Cornwall Railroad, was to use the C/MRI, the first thing I did...
Group, While I have been following this for some time, and reading my CMRI user manual, I still have a couple questions. First. The vast majority of my...
... Exactly correct... ... What "rotary switches" are you refering to? If it's the switch controls, one (1N/R) would throw both switches in the crossover only...
Matt, With two tracks connected by one or two crossovers at one CP, you need one signal lever (each to handle both right and leftward directions) for each...
I'm sure you programing experts made some sense out of this thread, but it has convinced me that I have no hope whatsoever of getting a CMRI interface working....
... Dear Mr. Calcutt, I'm the owner of this list, and I want to formally reinforce Bruce Chubb's post: it is an expectation that you dig into the materials...
Barry: Before you give up on the computer, let me make one comment... What this thread is talking about is the initialization routine necessary to get the...
Before I learned celestial navigation I thought it was something reserved for sailors with decades of experience. After I read a book and took a couple of...
Barry; although I have a system up and running, design my own circuitry, and have been programming for about 40 years, I have no idea what they are talking...
Bruce, Hmmm well that is understandable since I do not have a manual. I guess that would be a good thing. I'm read code from other people's program. I'm not...
Barry Draper, That is why I'm writing software that is not programmable. I plan for the user to tell the program what lights and what pins they are connected...
While studying electronics, we were introduced to the idea of a black box. The box had an input and an output with some information relating to the dynamics of...
Greetings all :) Okay, I am in my first flushes of enthusiasm here with the new model railroad finally started, in a new country..(I moved to Canada from the...
Hi Graham All the VB examples run fine on VB5.0 professional. You can test either using QBASIC or VB. The VB is the choice right know. As User's get more...
This is just my opinion, but if you are going to use serial communication, I'd go with one of the Visual flavors. They are easy to program and the newer...
Hi to everybody, I am wondering where the relationship "1=ON" and "0=OFF" come from. I know that the serial communications are based on relationships of...
Matthew: This comes from the hardware side of things... At the most basic level (binary), the computer internally interprets a 1 as "on" and a 0 as "off"....
