model railroad yard controls
Channel: pileofstuff
Date: 12/10/2018

I decided to make the 4 track yard on my layout a bit easier  to use (and fancier) by motorising all the turnouts and adding a "one touch" control panel.

Now, instead of operating each turnout to select a route into the yard, all I need to do is push a single control on the panel and all the tracks align auto-magically.

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Here's the previous video about the touch sensors:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xodq0SHj_f8

I show in detail how I installed the servo motors in a couple of previous videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUGtj7uWZOQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z90_C7J-bg

And here's my code, for those masochists who want to look closer at it:
http://pileofstuff.ca/project_files/yard_control.ino

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This isn't the only way to do it.
It's probably not the best way to do it.

But it's how I do it.