Not all of the scenery on a railway is passive. There are lights, cranes, windmills, waterwheels and such like that add movement and "life" to the scene. These can be left permanently on; but to add even more life, they can operate to a realistic pattern of "daily life".
CML Electronics MSC8 was designed to control this kind of effect. It is a DCC decoder that drives a number of outputs. Each output can be turned on or off, or each output can have an "effect" that turns it on & off automatically. Outputs can control motors, servos or lighting.
Examples of effects that can be controlled include:
- A motor in a windmill that rund periodically to an apparently random pattern
- A smoke generator in a fire scene that is active for one minute every 5 minutes
- Police car lights
- Flashing lights on a level crossing
- A flickering candle or oil lamp
- Lights in a house that turn on & off to a random pattern
Subcategories
Controlling Trains
This section describes how Traincontroller has been used on the South Downs Railway.
Traincontroller Overview
This section describes the Traincontroller product itself.
setting up Traincontroller
This section describes some common computer software products.
About Computer Control
What computer control of model railways is all about