The rebirth of the Canyon State RR

[ezdays]

Got the wiring done, well as far as I've checked. Here's a few shots of what I've been busy doing. I already had all the layout wiring going to terminal blocks. I added some more lights to the residential housing and the haunted mansion on the hill. I added the connector board so that I could just unplug the control panel without having to remove any wires. That feature will come in handy when we decide to move the layout out of the tiny room that it's in. I wanted to be able to dim the lighting continuously from low to high and was using an 11 VA power pack to do that. I measured the current and the drain was well under 11 VA, but the thing would kick out, supposedly on overload, so I switched to a dual output supply that I had, so now I have dim and bright, but nothing in between. I'll deal with that later.

Inside wiring, a bit sloppy, but it's been a long time since I did stuff like this, and that was for customers so it had to be neat.

   
   

The control panel and rail power pack in place:

   

Here we have the lighting dim and bright. To me, the dim is too dim, and the bright is too bright, so like I said, I'll deal with that later.

   
   

Lastly, I can turn everything on and off remotely, it's easier that way.