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Dave Emery
If I go with servo-based switch machines (e.g. Tam Valley or Walthers), how do I power them? It would be a pain in the posterior to have to provision AC and then a bunch of wall-warts around the layout. Has anyone done a ’servo power bus’?
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Paul O <pomilian@...>
Dave, I have a 12 V DC power bus that runs around my layout. Then use small adjustable regulators from Banggood.com set to 5 V to power my servos.
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Jay <jayfmn@...>
Hi!
You power both systems from the DCC Bus or a 12v supply. The control boards supply the power to the servos. Jay |
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Walthers makes a 12v PS {filtered} to go with their new LCC switch control;. Keith On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 3:50 PM Dave Emery via Groups.Io <deemery=icloud.com@groups.io> wrote: If I go with servo-based switch machines (e.g. Tam Valley or Walthers), how do I power them? It would be a pain in the posterior to have to provision AC and then a bunch of wall-warts around the layout. Has anyone done a ’servo power bus’? |
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I use a separate 5V bus for my servos turnout controllers. I currently
have about about ten installed. I drive my bus with a switching power supply. Jameco probably has the best US prices. I got mine via Alibaba Express. I wound up getting one with considerably higher Amperage rating then you would think because of start up issues. Normally the servos use very little current to run but when first powered on they can draw significantly more to get to the exact position currently commanded. At power up they all did this at the same time. Sensitivity to this issues is likely dependent on the servo driver. I have been using Pololu USB programmable drivers because of versatility. However they did not have an option to delay startup on individual servos. I am using a 5 Ampere supply currently. The failure to start up properly was pretty catastrophic for me as it led to bent wires at my servos. Since getting a much bigger supply I have had zero problems. It would be interesting to know how the other stuff out there behaves. I am going to try the Swedish Möllehem controllers going forward. The pricing and delivery to the US was excellent, they seem to be well made and they interface to Loconet which are all priorities for me. It will likely be a couple of months before I actually install my first one. Best Regards, Ken Harstine Holyoke, MA |
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David Heine
I have both 12 VDC and 5 VDC power buses on my layout, supplied from large switching power supplies I bought from Jameco. I use servos for most of my turnouts and all of the stub turnouts. (I had some new Tortise machines, so I used them on some point turnouts.) I have some 3-way stubs that are controlled by the Tam Valley 3-way controller, which uses 12 VDC power, but most of my two way turnouts, of which most are servo-powered stub turnouts use 5 VDC controllers. The 12 VDC bus is powered by one large power supply. I broke the 5 VDC into three sections, each with it own power supply. If I had a smaller layout, I would just use one power supply. Dave Heine Easton, PA On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 10:17 AM Ken Harstine <kharstin@...> wrote: I use a separate 5V bus for my servos turnout controllers. I currently |
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