I'm posting this question for Malcolm Stewart.
Malcolm Stewart said:Peter,
Here's my first question about constructing the Penobscot and Pee Dee garden railroad. As presently conceived, it'll ultimately have some 800' of roadbed. From my reading, this will require several aux power stations and polarity flippers. of
Eventually, I want to be highly automated; e.g., turnouts remotely controlled, crossing signals in synch with traffic, and the like. My reading leads me to the belief that a feedback signal is a facilitator of this.
I notice on a schematic that I have that the feedback signal reports to the central control station. Can I use a single system-wide bus for feedback or should there be dedicated feedback to the station that controls each power zone?
Malcolm Stewart
PS I'd intended to put this on the general blackboard, but am too green to know how to do it.