[Accrs] New Circuitron Switch Machine Product - Smail

[Alameda County Central Railroad Society]

A new Circuitron switch machine is now available.  It caught my attention when I read that it has an integrated micro-controlled and speaks DCC.


Read more here: http://www.circuitron.com/index_files/ins/800-6200ins.pdf


It requires an initial program setting for the Id Address like any DCC device, but you have to connect to the DCC bus,  press a button on the board, wait,  use your controller to see the address,  then disconnect the power.  (per instructions, but I think you can power from DCC buss)  So you only have to do this once - unless there is a technical glitch.  Then good luck crawling under the layout to press that button.


Surprises me that if you are going to the effort to put a micro-controller in the design,  why not make it always DCC connected and remotely programmable.


Take a look and see what you think.

CONGRATULATIONS ! SLOW MOTION ACTUATOR WITH INTEGRATED ...<http://www.circuitron.com/index_files/ins/800-6200ins.pdf>
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