Easily Automate Semaphore Signals in DC and DCC! Train-Tech Products Tested!

Today Jenny is showing you how you can easily automate your signals using both DC and DCC, with the Train-Tech SC400 Dapol Semaphore Controller and ST10 Track Sensor Plus! If you like the look of these and want some for your own layout, here's a link to help you out: bit.ly/3iYdP4J or bit.ly/3MZD9SN
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Chapters:
00:00 Video Start
00:30 Introduction
01:56 Sponsor
04:01 Jenny's Current Setup
04:24 Train-Tech Semaphore Controller
06:31 Train-Tech Track Sensor Plus
08:53 How to use the Track Sensor Plus
12:18 How to use the Dapol Semaphore Controller
15:52 How to connect the semaphore controller to a signal
19:30 Showing the Signal and Controller working together
20:21 How to add independent DCC control
21:42 How to add a second signal to the semaphore controller
22:40 Conclusion
25:50 Thanks and Sponsor

[@jeffheins6624]

These look good i may have to look into using these on my layout

[@wamgoc]

Very good video Jenny, thanks for explaining this to clearly

[@JenniferEKirk]

You’re welcome!

[@hwebster5087]

Excellent video , nicely explained. Thank you for the amount of your time you devote to the making of these uploads

[@JenniferEKirk]

Thanks!

[@AllensTrains]

Hi Jenny., Quite an interesting and informative video. I don''t think I shall be having it on my layout! It would be a solution on museum display layouts which are inside a glass case which need to operate without anybody being there. Thanks fo ruploading

[@DavidBrown-lh1vf]

Nice video Jenny. Very informative and pretty simple to set up. Afraid I’d have to tweak some of the settings as you’re showing two greens (all be it temporarily) at the same time. Signal interlocking would not let you put one signal ‘off’ until the corresponding signal is ‘on’. Having said that, really impressed with the ease of use and potential for layout development. As usual, a well presented and interesting video. Many thanks, dB

[@ChobertonJunction]

Great video and something I again will be noting for future. Thank you.

[@bazza3643]

Hi Jenny, i can personally recommend these signals. I have been using the Train-Tech Technology to automatically operate 7 Dapol SR semaphore signals that I have installed on my layout.
I first installed the signals about 5 years ago, then later I modified the wiring to them, so that while they operate automatically by the movement of the trains, I can over-ride the Train-Tech sensor and control each signal manually. The Train-Tech sensor which is a bit big, can be easily disguised with a wayward bush, or a ballast bin, or a line side electrical cabinet.
Real railways cannot operate without the appropriate signals, yet most model railway layouts that I have seen, lack the proper semaphore or colour light working signals that control the train movements.
Dapol have just announced a range of LMS upper quadrant semaphore gantry signals, so now I’ll just wait for Dapol to make a range of Southern Railway upper quadrant gantry signals that will allow me to complete the signalling of my Barnham station layout.
Best Regards
Barry 🇳🇿

[@clivengauge]

Hi Jenny very good video just a question do these items work on n gauge layouts thank you for sharing 👍

[@hamshackleton]

I already have the TT colour lights and the Dapol semaphores, but have yet to install them. What I have been looking for is a way of using them on single-track bi-directional, without getting false 'clears' when the loco goes 'the wrong way' along, without going to manual switched control.

[@andyrutherford203]

Very useful and easy to understand article. Iam however still getting a timed signal drop instead of the second train sensor drop. Im sure ive wired it up correctly. Any ideas that may help?

[@dakdak7609]

I like this idea, and it looks to be executed well. Nicely explained too, thank you. The sensor module is a bit large and fugly though. As it measures electrical current, could it be installed under the layout by use of a couple of extra droppers?

[@JenniferEKirk]

I’m not sure, though hiding it under vegetation, bridges or tunnels might be one way to make it discrete.

[@hamshackleton]

You have to have the sensor module where the light-sensitive 'eye' can see the shadow of the passing train, or it won't trigger. The 'prongs' are just to power the module from the track. It can be 'hard-wired', but still needs to be by the track.

[@citizenmilitia1]

Hi Jenny, this is a great video. Does this work with three aspect signals?
Also can you use this with a timer? Say, turn red - then wait 15 seconds, turn yellow - then wait 15 seconds and turn green

[@nicmevan9966]

I'm currently looking at signalling options and this seems like a good system however, your instructional is very clumsy, even absent in parts and especially re a DC application. Sure you say it can be used on DC layouts but omit showing how that's achieved, especially re the sensor module. Maybe I missed something, but I don't think you really thought this one through properly and took too much understanding for granted. Please, I'd love you to re do this better.