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by Southern188
Sun Feb 25, 2024 10:48 am
Forum: Projects
Topic: Wifi control with ESP8266
Replies: 20
Views: 1014

Re: Wifi control with ESP8266

Good luck with your project. I started using Arduinos in my garden rail locos in 2013 and and moved to ESP8266s in 2018. I use the Wemos D1 mini rather than the basic ESPs like the ESP01 that you are using. They have more I/O ports, an analogue input which I use for battery voltage and are easier to...
by Southern188
Sun Jun 14, 2020 10:52 am
Forum: Projects
Topic: A Home Wi-Fi Connected Garden Railway
Replies: 37
Views: 21444

Re: A Home Wi-Fi Connected Garden Railway

Very nice smooth operating. Are you operating both locos from the same controller :?: Great videos by the way :thumbright: :thumbright: Thanks Rod. I modified my remote control to send the same speed signal to both locos. Was rather pleased and surpised when it worked so well. My remote control has...
by Southern188
Fri Jun 12, 2020 10:18 am
Forum: Projects
Topic: A Home Wi-Fi Connected Garden Railway
Replies: 37
Views: 21444

Re: A Home Wi-Fi Connected Garden Railway

Thanks Philip, yes that's the correct link and I've corrected the typo.
by Southern188
Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:42 am
Forum: Projects
Topic: A Home Wi-Fi Connected Garden Railway
Replies: 37
Views: 21444

Re: A Home Wi-Fi Connected Garden Railway

It's been a while so I thought I would update this thread with the latest developments on my railway. My railway has expanded, and there are now 13 items controlled by ESP8266 and ESP32 processors. There are 7 locos (1 steam), 2 wagons (sound and location), a railway station (sound, lights and 6 poi...
by Southern188
Wed Aug 15, 2018 10:26 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: A Home Wi-Fi Connected Garden Railway
Replies: 37
Views: 21444

Re: A Home Wi-Fi Connected Garden Railway

Yes Rod, a nice looking loco, Accucraft have done a good job. The electronics have been in the same position in my Lew, which has been running for 4 years. No problems with muck so far.

Michael
by Southern188
Tue Aug 14, 2018 10:04 am
Forum: Projects
Topic: A Home Wi-Fi Connected Garden Railway
Replies: 37
Views: 21444

Re: A Home Wi-Fi Connected Garden Railway

Belated thanks to Greg for his comments. Here's an update. Thanks to Virgin Media there has been a change to the wi-fi system. After they dug up the road I waited a year before signing up but whilst the speed is fast the router is not very good. The original wi-fi was a repeater in the summerhouse b...
by Southern188
Sat Jun 09, 2018 8:48 pm
Forum: Photographs
Topic: Beeston Market Station forecourt/backscenes
Replies: 49
Views: 31057

Re: Beeston Market Station forecourt/backscenes

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by Southern188
Sat Jun 09, 2018 8:27 am
Forum: Photographs
Topic: Beeston Market Station forecourt/backscenes
Replies: 49
Views: 31057

Re: Beeston Market Station forecourt/backscenes

I greatly admire all your modelling skills and the realistic scenes and enjoy viewing them but I'm dissapointed to find that some of the photos and videos are being, or will be, digitally enhanced. They are good enough without this and more natural for a railway that is in a garden. Please, no fake ...
by Southern188
Tue Jun 05, 2018 11:49 am
Forum: General Garden Railways
Topic: A simple change has made such a difference
Replies: 7
Views: 4902

Re: A simple change has made such a difference

An electrically operated roller shutter would be nice :D but I ended up using the piece I cutout. There is still a piece of wood missing, which is why there is that long gap at the bottom. Long story, the summerhouse was as far back as the fence but was being raised 6" by the tree roots, moved ...
by Southern188
Mon Jun 04, 2018 8:09 pm
Forum: General Garden Railways
Topic: A simple change has made such a difference
Replies: 7
Views: 4902

A simple change has made such a difference

or "Why didn't think of this before"... I've just realised that I have probably ran my trains more times this year than the total of all previous 8 years since I started my garden railway. Whilst it has something to do with an extension I carried out over the winter and the 'infamous' besp...
by Southern188
Tue May 29, 2018 8:26 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: UK Rolling Stock in G - Project not yet started
Replies: 201
Views: 124940

Re: UK Rolling Stock in G - Project not yet started

Nice to see a DCC system here, thanks for sharing. Looks like a lot of track to keep clean!

Michael
by Southern188
Fri May 25, 2018 7:59 pm
Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
Topic: Picaxe servo control
Replies: 43
Views: 18883

Re: Picaxe servo control

Philip A standard servo has 3 wires, 0v, 5v and signal. The power required by the servo comes through the 5 volt line not the signal. The signal line can be driven directly via the GPIO of a Raspberry pi, Arduino or ESP8266 so I assume it is the same for a Picaxe. If you are using the darlington dri...
by Southern188
Fri May 25, 2018 6:39 pm
Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
Topic: Picaxe servo control
Replies: 43
Views: 18883

Re: Picaxe servo control

Philip

I think the Picaxe experts will ask for a circuit diagram or sketch. I run my servos direct from the Arduino/ ESP8266 GPIO lines, so not sure why you need a darlinton drive?

Michael.
by Southern188
Fri May 25, 2018 6:35 pm
Forum: Locomotives - Electric
Topic: New arrival on the GWLR
Replies: 18
Views: 11134

Re: New arrival on the GWLR

A big like from me. Could you please tell me how easy it would be to change the gauge to 45mm? Thanks.

Michael
by Southern188
Fri May 25, 2018 3:54 pm
Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
Topic: Picaxe servo control
Replies: 43
Views: 18883

Re: Picaxe servo control

Philip

Sorry, I can't be much help as I haven't used a Picaxe before but can't you use the servo function? Looks much simpler.

http://www.picaxe.com/BASIC-Commands/Di ... put/servo/

Michael
by Southern188
Sat May 19, 2018 8:53 pm
Forum: General Garden Railways
Topic: Lynton & Barnstaple Railway - Rolle Quay coaling siding
Replies: 4
Views: 4160

Re: Lynton & Barnstaple Railway - Rolle Quay coaling siding.

Thanks Philip. That means for completion I can attach an image from their website which is the same as in the book. From their website, for copyright, I have to include the following link.
https://maps.nls.uk/index.html

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by Southern188
Fri May 18, 2018 11:56 am
Forum: General Garden Railways
Topic: Lynton & Barnstaple Railway - Rolle Quay coaling siding
Replies: 4
Views: 4160

Re: Lynton & Barnstaple Railway - Rolle Quay coaling siding.

In the book "L&B Journey Barnstaple to Lynton and back", there is a picture from a 25in to the mile map of Barnstaple published by the Ordnance Survey in 1932 showing what looks like a railway track running by Rolle Quay on the other side of the River Yeo to the L&B track. There ar...
by Southern188
Tue May 15, 2018 11:21 am
Forum: Videos
Topic: A summer's evening
Replies: 6
Views: 4368

Re: A summer's evening

Nice one Rik. Was doing the same but white wine not prosecco :D

Michael
by Southern188
Mon May 14, 2018 5:15 pm
Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
Topic: Batteries + Binnie Parts
Replies: 25
Views: 8749

Re: Batteries + Binnie Parts

Rod

Binnie Engineering don't have a website but you can find their details on the Summerlands Chuffer website.

http://www.summerlands-chuffer.co.uk/bi ... 4577586364

Have recently ordered from him using the email address so it is valid.

Michael
by Southern188
Mon Apr 30, 2018 9:39 am
Forum: Projects
Topic: Building a radio controlled (electric) traction engine
Replies: 62
Views: 25401

Re: Building a radio controlled (electric) traction engine

I had a similar problem recently, the DFPlayer sound card I was playing with interfered with another 5 volt circuit (not the processor). I solved it as you with a schottky diode and capacitor. I also changed the layout to ensure the 0v and 5v lines of the offending device went directly to the regula...