The article is not intended to say that tam valley depot or any other product is substandard to the maestro controller. Im still exploring and testing them, so this page may be somewhat incomplete. Atrack for windows atrack is a powerful free extension to complement the facilities of your nce corporation power cab or power pro digital command control system and to assist you in running your roster of locomotives on your model railroad atrack allows you to store full details of all of your locomotives and accessory turnout decoders, with all of their dcc configuration parameters. The sticker with 6 white circles in a pentagon shape indicates a 6 pin decoder interface. Use pr3 and soundloader software to download your own sound scheme to the decoder. Read back for manufacturer id, should be 153 for tcs. You perform what lgb describe as a hard reverse, ie reverse the polarity of the track. Tam valley depot this product is no longer available.
The relay state changes at the servo travel midpoint to reduce problems with. An expansion port can be used to add relays for powering frogs or other devices. No need to program the locomotive just take it out of the box and put it on the. To control a turnout we reccomend you also get the srw001 switchwright bracket see below and an sg90 or similar type servo. Dcc hobby supply, dcc, digitrax, tcs, nce, soundtraxx, qsi, decoders, zephyr, super chief, blackstone models, bli blueline. Railcom with tam valley depot dead rails drs1 dcc help. I recently purchased an external dcc booster from tam valley depot. Bluerail is a model train technology company with expertise in interface design, software development, and firmware that brings stateoftheart smartphone control to model railroading. Singlet servo dcc accessory decoder tam valley depot. Tam valley depot makes a number of interesting dcc products, including a dcc train shuttle. Features an integrated controllerprogrammerdcc decoderpower supply and servo driver in a tiny 1. Tam valley depot digital command control dcc hex frog.
Tam valley depot dcc singlet micro servo accessory decoder with fascia controller. The ms100 computer interface is designed to let a computer with an ibm compatible com, or rs232 communications port, monitor digitrax loconet. A ken burns style montage of my favorite photos set to blues music. Dcc train automation unit 16 bowdens farm hambridge, somerset ta10 0bp united kingdom. Tam valley dcc booster for accessories and power districts. Tam valley depot dcc servo centering tool use this handy portable tool to keep your servos centered while you mount them under the layout. Each unit can power and reverse polarity for up to six frogs, enough for as many turnouts or three crossings. Factory reset can be done on the main track or on the programming track. I used a real arduino uno r3 and i tested a knockoff, the sain, which also worked nicely. The hex frog juicer senses a short circuit any load exceeding 2 amps when a metal wheel bridges the gap between the frog and an adjacent. Tam valley depot dual 3way mark iii servo accessory decoder overview. Hi i was just wondering if anyone knew if railcom was transmitted successfully over a wireless dcc system that utilised tam valley depot drs1 receivertransmitter. Note the internal antenna on the right side of the board. Quadpic servo dcc accesory decoder use to control four turnouts using model rc style servos.
Has the latest servo drive circuitry that prevents buzzing and allows for installation similar to a stallmotor no programming of the stop positions needed. Teach the dcc address with a jumper no cvs to program. The reset occurs the moment the decoder gets the reset command. You are not required to log yourself into the system or create an account. But, as tam valley depot recognized, it is advantageous to use any device that supplies dcc to the rails and transmit this dcc wirelessly to dcccompatible receivers. The tam valley depot drs1, mkiv receiver is a significant upgrade from the drs1, mkiii, and operates at the original tam valley 916. The dual 3way servo decoder will control 2 semaphore arms with either dcc command control or manually by pressing a button. The frog juicer supplies the power and switches the phase by electronic means rather than a mechanical switch.
Please register to view all of the new posts and forum boards some of which are hidden to guests. Micro singlet turnout controller with builtin dcc decoder a simple and quick way to get servos up and running on your layout. This means that you will need to enter a value nearly 4 times as great 3. After registering and gaining 10 posts you will be able to sell and buy items on our nporium. He has upgraded to quad boards to control groups of 4 turnouts on his nscale layout and the results of his installation. Micro singlet turnout controller with builtin dcc decoder. I actually just installed my first servo on the layout and the octopus works brilliantly. Get expert decoder installation advice on all top brands including digitrax, soundtraxx, nce, more at. The single feature that turned me on to this controller over the others was the ability to setup complex route. The device detects the short circuit caused when a locomotive passes.
See the which servo driver and which frog juicer decision tables. It can be used for end detection, a station stop, or to send accessory commands. Another servo that works well is the hitc hs311, which is a standard size servo, good. I have bought 3 octopus ii boards off tam valley to power my 19 turnouts, coupled with the sg90 servos i bought on ebay they are brilliant. Duncan decided to share the boards and controllers he originally designed for his own use. The hex frog juicer from tam valley depot is an automatic reversing circuit for turnout and crossing frogs on digital command control layouts. Tam valley makes a number of interesting dcc products. Servos are easily mounted under the turnout and provide a reliable and inexpensive method to switch points.
Jmri software, decoder pro, panel pro and model railroad. Tam valley depot was established in 2008 by duncan mcree who has been building model railroads since he was 14. Dcc, railpro and dcs model trains dealer, dcc, railpro and dcs sound, dcc decoders, mth dcs ps2 upgrade kits. The drs1, mkiv presents no difficulties for the 902928 mhz. Sbs4dcc psx and frog juicers short circuit conflict. The boosters higher current capacity should give me some extra insurance as well as the option of running locomotive with a higher current draw.
They do need to be handled properly, no over charging or over discharging. Jmri model railroad interface list jmridevelopers archives. Tam valley depot is a small company in san diego owned by duncan mcree and janice yuwiler. A notable limitation of the tam valley depot drs1 transmitter is that it does not provide dcc idle packets that the airwire receivers require unless the original dcc. As we are dealing direct with tam valley supply is good.
The frog juicer is an electronic autoreversing device sold by tam valley depot live frog turnouts require power juice to be supplied independently to the frog with the correct phase to match the route selected. You can shuttle a loco that has an lgb decoder using dc. Ocd001 octocoder stationary dcc decoder for octopus iii. This provides the timing necessary to decode the pwm dcc signal and to precisely time the pulsewidths for the servos. Tam valley depot dcc quadln loconet servo decoder quadln servo driver and loconet decoder board servos, fascia controllers and other accessories not included. You would need to add a tam valley depot rx into the loco that piggybacked onto the dcc decoder. You can use just about any arduino uno compatible board. As devout hobbyists ourselves, we appreciate the history of dcc.
It sends a command to a switch decoder when the train enters the end station. Can use all of the same accessories and daughter boards as the quadpic. This wont work for my rr because i need to control switches in the middle of the run. You are not required to log yourself into the system or create an account in. Customer service customer experience point of sale lead management event management survey. Turnout control im using some custom built switches with a live frog, so besides dcc control of the switch motor, i want power routing to the frog. Installation is quick and easy it takes about five minutes, they require very little long term maintenance and they are very reasonably priced. Tam valley depot developed a transmitter that plugged into any dcc system and transmitted the dcc info over the air, not the rails.
Tam valley depot dcc quadpic auto programmable servo decoder. Includes pc board with gramming buttons, mounting screw and instructions. All boards are handbuilt in san diego, ca by frank, jack and kevin with you, the model railroader, in mind. Tam valley depot great electronics for great model railroads. John houghton, fellow member of our nottawasaga model railway nmr club and a regular attendee at weekly operating nights on my ho utopia northern layout kindly gave me two servo motors and two single tam valley depot singlet decoder boards to experiment with in may, 20. Tam valley depot the turtle stall motor dcc accessory decoder and local control driver board. Tam valley depot has released the tam valley depot the turtle stall motor dcc accessory decoder and local control driver board. Cv 8 is decoder reset, set to 2 for reset, resets most stuff. Use pr3 and soundloader software to download your own fully customizable sound scheme to the decoder. Looking back the nottawasaga model railway club gathered at johns house on a monday evening in august, 2012 for a demonstration of jmri possibilities and a tour of his layout. To reset cvs to their factory setting write a value of 2 into cv8. Photos of my o scale switching layout at the rpm meet last. Deadrail transmitterreceiver options and installation.
Digitrax n scale sound decoders litchfield station. Tam valley depot was established in 2008 by duncan mcree who has been building model. However, you will probably want the genuine arduino motor shield. This is an introduction to the tam valley depot dcc servo control system that we are installing our our club layout, the strasburg model railroad. The recentlyreleased tam valley depot drs1, mkiv receiver. Ms100 rs232 computer interface for connecting loconet to your ibm compatible pc. Available automatic brake control products mobile decoders with abc support. Accounting billing and invoicing budgeting payment processing. The sxkey connector can be used to program the chip from a usb port of a windoze pc with an sxblitz. Master list of decoder resets by manufacturer welcome to. Bluerail partners with existing established experts within the hobby to bring model railroaders the interface and level of control they deserve.
It has a current sensing feature that actually works and is sensitive enough to capture the readback pulse of a dcc decoder. Quick video on the use of tam valley depots singlet servo decoder on the amoskeag northern. Tam valley depot all scales dcc dual 3way ii servo decoder. I have to say battery power with this system works very well, my rails are not dead as i use computer software for det. The software was quite fun and had much improved graphcs over the old version. Tam valley depot has released several new accessory items. The turtle stall motor dcc accessory decoder can drive just about any stall motor on the market including the tortoise, switch masters, cobalt, as. Ill be interested to see if the tam valley controller has a low voltage cutoff circuit. An expanded range of decoder manufacturers is now supported bachmann, broadway limited paragon 23, dcc concepts, digitrax, esu loksound, hornby, lenz, nce, model rectifier, mth, qsi quantum, soundtraxx, tam valley depot, train control systems tcs, zimo, and ztc fully updated from the latest manufacturers data. First up it centres the servo, then the alignment function takes. The tool consists of a battery box connected to a small circuit board that continuously puts out a centering signal for the servo 1.