On another Forum, a fellow asked:
"If there were Model Train electronics that could do anything for your train what would if be?"
My wish item is:
A Layout lighting control. Have a box you can wire up with a photo of your town on it.
you touch a window on the photo and the light in that window of the building on the layout comes on. you touch the window again, the light goes off. I have been thinking of Fibre Optics for this, but can not come up with a way to "turn on and off" each individual fibre.
For example I am building the "Downtown Orangeville" diorama for my layout. There are 14 two-story shops and one four-story building, assuming if the "store" is open, all first floor lights are on, and each second (or higher) story window is a distinct room. Plus adding 8 "Street lights". That would be 100 "lights" that could be either off or on.
Now the "control panel" could be mounted in a drawer under the layout, and getting 100 fibres of the correct length is easy and relatively cheap.
However... how can you control them individually?
That is the BIG question....
"If there were Model Train electronics that could do anything for your train what would if be?"
My wish item is:
A Layout lighting control. Have a box you can wire up with a photo of your town on it.
you touch a window on the photo and the light in that window of the building on the layout comes on. you touch the window again, the light goes off. I have been thinking of Fibre Optics for this, but can not come up with a way to "turn on and off" each individual fibre.
For example I am building the "Downtown Orangeville" diorama for my layout. There are 14 two-story shops and one four-story building, assuming if the "store" is open, all first floor lights are on, and each second (or higher) story window is a distinct room. Plus adding 8 "Street lights". That would be 100 "lights" that could be either off or on.
Now the "control panel" could be mounted in a drawer under the layout, and getting 100 fibres of the correct length is easy and relatively cheap.
However... how can you control them individually?
That is the BIG question....