Wiring a Solenoid Point Motor

In this episode I tell you the fundamentals on how a solenoid point motor works. How to wire one up, and what switches to use. a bit about CDU's and the method I use to control the frog and as a bonus it will also be able to show route indication on your control panel.
The items used are
12V Miniature Latching Relay DPDT HFD2
1n4001 Diodes
1Watt, 1k resistors
Led's
Useful links
www.modellingelectronics.co.uk
More info on CDU's
www.blocksignalling.co.uk/inde...
www.heathcote-electronics.co....
Music credits
All from the TH-cam Audio Library
Angel’s Dream - Aakash Gandhi
Falling Snow - Aakash Gandhi
Invisible Beauty - Aakash Gandhi
Lifting Dreams - Aakash Gandhi
and also.
"Easy Lemon (60 second)" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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[@Hal-Zuzzu_Model_Railway]

Thank you for sharing Tony :) TH-cam is sending notifications too lkate. I only watched the second half. Will watch it all tomorrow :)

[@TheHeritageLine]

No worries

[@wimbletrain]

G'day Tony, nice explanation of how to and some traps to avoid. The boards like the one you showed towards the end do make it easier don't they, no soldering required and can be swapped out easily if need be. I currently have my switches, etc all operated by the computer (not that I have many) but i do miss having a control panel with switches and LEDs. I'd like to go back and incorporate that type of old school stuff, it's just more fun! Cheers John

[@TheHeritageLine]

Strange you say that john but my next video in this series will be on accessory decoders. If all goes to plan I should be able to control all my layout from the z21 and in the future a computer but also retain my control panel. I also like the old school stuff 😁. All the best Tony.

[@Hal-Zuzzu_Model_Railway]

Awesome .. loads of details for the novice :) well done :) Easy to follow :)

[@TheHeritageLine]

Hi Joe, glad you liked it! The next video in this series will be using an accessory decoder which in theory means all my layout could be operated by the z21, and possibly down the line computer control 😁 All the best Tony.

[@Hal-Zuzzu_Model_Railway]

@@TheHeritageLine You are a very bad influence you know lol

[@mysticrailroad]

tremendous video. thank you.

[@TheHeritageLine]

Glad you enjoyed it! All the best Tony

[@SC68]

Hi Tony, great video, my goto video if and when I come to fit electric point motors but for now very interesting video. Cheers Gary

[@TheHeritageLine]

Hi Gary, Glad you got a good insight to point motors, personally if your happy enough changing points by hand I would just use a frog juicer if you need to control any frogs seeing as you are going down the dcc route. The only problem is a frog juicer will not work for DC. I'm lazy and just love to be able to flick a switch for the points LOL! All the best Tony

[@GosportRailworks]

Very interesting, might have a go at using these as do have some issues with the frogs on my main layout (I try not to change them when they work atm), so when I get round to working on wiring the point motors I might just add these in, though I'd prob just mount them to some copper stripboard as I'd need 14 of them for Bosnport heh
Cheers very much for sharing Tony, and ta for the circuit diagram, have just doodled down my own copy!

[@TheHeritageLine]

Stripboard would work fine, glad you liked my work around the frogs, the beauty of this method is that it will work for both dc and dcc. All the best Tony