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Saturday, August 31, 2013

At last "Live" frogs


The frustration of my shunt loco pausing all the time on a set of peco code 75 electrofrog points compelled me to take up the challenge of modifying the point to make the frogs live.

I consulted the Peco leaflet that comes in the box when you buy a point to look at how to wire the turnout.  Seemed quite straight-forward although later I would realise that one thing that was missing was the connection/feeders from the point to the track bus.

For the activation mechanism, I used two crappy and cheap looking steel hangers from the wife's wardrobe.  To automatically activate the frog, I used micro-switches.

Here is a video that demonstrates what happens when the frogs aren't live...



Here is a drawing of how I wired my point to make the frogs live:



Here is a photo of the rats nest under the base-board:


Hope this helps someone out there.


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