I had a flash of insight the other day to make things even easier for the servo / switch movement. If you recall the motion is different between the switch and the servo - circular versus linear. I solved that with some bends and such to the wire... BUT... I've gone and changed it up again. This time I mounted the servo up and down, versus upside down. picture to come later. This allows the arm to swing like a pendulum (a controlled one but none the less) and moves the switch arm in a perfect linear fashion. The tweaks aren't needed and installations are a bit easier (ok a lot).
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| Facing the servo. Up and down like a tortoise. I didn't bend the wire around the arm too much and its still ok |
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| From the side. Notice the horrible job I did on the bending. |
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| Seriously bad bending job. |
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| Here's another one that I bent better. Oh and used a lot of glue ! |
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| Here's a better shot. The wire is piano wire and very stiff. |
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| The switch and the servo wire poking out. I usually put a bit of clear plastic around the hole. |
I've gone and converted 4 previously installed servo's and two net new to this new methodology and am very happy with the results.
Besides that, I haven't done much. Entered some info into JMRI so I can start the automation, tweaked a couple of the loco's, still haven't speed matched my damn C-630's.
