hamltnblue
Active Member
I have a little dilemma. I could be over reacting but my gut says no. I need a few opinions.
About 5 years ago I decided to join a club. I had previously attended their Christmas shows for several years with my kids but followed up on a flyer they had requesting new members.
While at the first meeting they noted my electronic background and they showed me their failed signaling system attempt. I told them I could get it running.
The existing system was a single board with nothing running. It did look pretty but that was useless if it did nothing.
I wound up joining and over the next year and a half I re-wired the entire 50x40 foot 4 track main layout for both detection and signaling. In the end there were about 16 hand built 4 track signal bridges with sixteen 4 track detection zones using digitrax equipment. The programming was done with a senior member of the club using JMRI. The system to this day works great.
Shortly after the project was completed I had an unfortunate illness resulting in an absence from the club for a year and a half. After my last surgery I visited the club and was happy to see the members. They were very supportive but one of the first things mentioned to me was they had a couple of ideas on how to clean up the wiring. My heart sunk on the spot. The detection and signaling has been working flawlessly since installed and the first thing they say is clean up the wiring under the layout? Who knows, maybe I'm over reacting but I'm also having a hard time returning.
Thoughts or comments?
Thanks
Here's a couple of pics of the signal bridges I built and wired.
About 5 years ago I decided to join a club. I had previously attended their Christmas shows for several years with my kids but followed up on a flyer they had requesting new members.
While at the first meeting they noted my electronic background and they showed me their failed signaling system attempt. I told them I could get it running.
The existing system was a single board with nothing running. It did look pretty but that was useless if it did nothing.
I wound up joining and over the next year and a half I re-wired the entire 50x40 foot 4 track main layout for both detection and signaling. In the end there were about 16 hand built 4 track signal bridges with sixteen 4 track detection zones using digitrax equipment. The programming was done with a senior member of the club using JMRI. The system to this day works great.
Shortly after the project was completed I had an unfortunate illness resulting in an absence from the club for a year and a half. After my last surgery I visited the club and was happy to see the members. They were very supportive but one of the first things mentioned to me was they had a couple of ideas on how to clean up the wiring. My heart sunk on the spot. The detection and signaling has been working flawlessly since installed and the first thing they say is clean up the wiring under the layout? Who knows, maybe I'm over reacting but I'm also having a hard time returning.
Thoughts or comments?
Thanks
Here's a couple of pics of the signal bridges I built and wired.
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