JMRI: How will I set Relays to manage Remote Turnouts from Bachmann?

cyber7 May 21, 2018

  1. cyber7

    cyber7 TrainBoard Member

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    Hi Guys.
    Over the weekend I built an "Arduino Decoder for 16 Relays" as found here: https://sites.google.com/site/sidloweb/elektrika/14-dekoder-pro-16-rele
    Everything works almost as expected:
    1. The addresses of 401-404 does not respond, but 405-420 does. The documentation on this is very scarce. Although the sketch states the decoder addresses to start on 401...
    2. It seems the library from MRRWA is also a bit funky where it seems to look on the Arduino what pins are active and just use those, nowhere to modify them yourself.
    Now here are my question: When I define the 16 RELAYS as turnouts in JMRI,
    1. is there a way to tell JMRI to use RELAY address 405 and 406 in pairs? Meaning, IF I click on 405 that 406 will become inactive?
    2. is there a way to switch the RELAY off after .5 seconds? Leaving it on will burn the Bachmann Remote Turnout's solenoid.
    I hope I got this explanation all right. I have only been at this for about 4 weeks...

    kind regards
    aubrey
     

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