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searchlight signal driver card. As it turns out, four signal heads
are typically used for an OS section at the end of a passing siding, so
the 8-wire (2 control lines per signal head) cat 5 network wire seemed
like a perfect match. The brass screws are for connecting power and
ground to the board. The trimmer pots are used to adjust the quality
of yellow on the bi-color signal LEDs. The blue connectors are used
to connect the signal wires to the board, however, these connectors are
little too big to sufficiently grasp the small magnet wire used on the
commercially available signals. Therefore, before installing the the
signal, I solder a small piece of
28 AWG wire right at the end of each signal wire, so the clamp in the blue
connector is able to grab onto the wire. The 28 AWG wire is still small
enough that I can feed the wires through the small signal
mounting hole in the layout. Therefore, I don't have to do any
soldering under the layout once the signal is installed. |
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