Micro servos where the best thing to ever happy to model trains. Sadly, in the USA, very few of these control boards are accessible. We only have the overpriced ones. Soon as I find a great option, the come from the UK and are never in stock in the states. Going with the cheap and accessible servo tester that sell for around $1 US and for another few pennies, you can more or less get a pretty nice little control setup.
Exactly the video I needed to persuade me to operate my points from a servo. What I intend to do, though, is operate the points via an over the board linkage from the servo to the side of the points.
I would like to place a servo in my engine, G scale. Does this sound correct ... a 18v battery I can step down to 12v to power servo thru control, and a 12v 300mA (not tied to the servo control 12v power just the S) on/off signal can come from the onboard decoder to act as the switch. My only concern is the decoder is max output is 300mA and I don't know if that will be an issue.
I think that the decoder signal may not be compatible because its a voltage not a contact . This could be overcome by using an optocoupler with a npn transistor output as an interface which would require about 20mA you would need a resistor around 1K to limit this current . The collector to the S terminal and the emitter to the 0V terminal Alternatively you could use a relay for the interface.
Brilliant video. Very interesting. Can I please ask? With regards to the Servo Motor Controller, am I right is thinking that I would need one of these controllers for each servo? So if I was to have a layout containing 10 x points, requiring 10 x servos, then I would also need 10 x Servo Motor Controllers?
Thanks for your comments. You are correct that you would need 10 Single Servo Motor Controllers but you would only need 5 Dual Servo Motor Controllers.
Thanks for your interest. Our products are only sold by mail order. You can order them from our website www.heathcote-electronics.co.uk. The circuit board is a Single servo Controller, we also sell servo motors brackets etc but most servo motors are compatible with the Single and Dual Servo motor controllers.
For more information and to place an order see our website www.heathcote-electronics.co.uk
Micro servos where the best thing to ever happy to model trains. Sadly, in the USA, very few of these control boards are accessible. We only have the overpriced ones. Soon as I find a great option, the come from the UK and are never in stock in the states. Going with the cheap and accessible servo tester that sell for around $1 US and for another few pennies, you can more or less get a pretty nice little control setup.
Very informative video thank you.
Brilliant Video , very helpful thank you
Exactly the video I needed to persuade me to operate my points from a servo.
What I intend to do, though, is operate the points via an over the board linkage from the servo to the side of the points.
Thanks for the comment. We have a video at ruclips.net/video/PdR--3-BVIY/видео.html which shows points operated with servos.
I would like to place a servo in my engine, G scale. Does this sound correct ... a 18v battery I can step down to 12v to power servo thru control, and a 12v 300mA (not tied to the servo control 12v power just the S) on/off signal can come from the onboard decoder to act as the switch. My only concern is the decoder is max output is 300mA and I don't know if that will be an issue.
I think that the decoder signal may not be compatible because its a voltage not a contact . This could be overcome by using an optocoupler with a npn transistor output as an interface which would require about 20mA you would need a resistor around 1K to limit this current . The collector to the S terminal and the emitter to the 0V terminal Alternatively you could use a relay for the interface.
Brilliant video. Very interesting.
Can I please ask? With regards to the Servo Motor Controller, am I right is thinking that I would need one of these controllers for each servo?
So if I was to have a layout containing 10 x points, requiring 10 x servos, then I would also need 10 x Servo Motor Controllers?
Thanks for your comments. You are correct that you would need 10 Single Servo Motor Controllers but you would only need 5 Dual Servo Motor Controllers.
Just subscribed to you your channel , interesting stuff
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Thanks for your interest. Our products are only sold by mail order. You can order them from our website www.heathcote-electronics.co.uk. The circuit board is a Single servo Controller, we also sell servo motors brackets etc but most servo motors are compatible with the Single and Dual Servo motor controllers.
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Hand held cams sucks
True, we have a tripod now.