The “Give Tony Grief” Thread

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Okay - glad everyone is having FUN ... 😦

So, I have concluded that I now need a sort of Control Panel for my switches for the Signals and the Building Lighting. At the moment I think I will have around 13 Buildings to light, the Street Lighting and whatever Signals I put in.

The individual buildings will be on their own switch; however the Street Lighting will all go on the one switch. The Signals will obviously be on individual switches as well. Therefore, it looks as though I will need around 18 switches :oops:
 
wombat457 said:
Okay - glad everyone is having FUN ... 😦

So, I have concluded that I now need a sort of Control Panel for my switches for the Signals and the Building Lighting. At the moment I think I will have around 13 Buildings to light, the Street Lighting and whatever Signals I put in.

The individual buildings will be on their own switch; however the Street Lighting will all go on the one switch. The Signals will obviously be on individual switches as well. Therefore, it looks as though I will need around 18 switches :oops:
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Problem having so many is in what order to put them in so as to remember which one is which switch. As I understand it, each building will have it's own switch, wouldn't it be simpler to group them and have 1 switch for each group, so if you have 15 buildings in groups of 5 that's three switches.
 
Yeah, it would be easier BUT not all that realistic. Each switch will be labelled so I knew which turned on what. Aside from that, the switches will be placed on the Panel in the same order as the buildings - so knowing which is which wont be difficult.
 


Have the final Park/Depot light wired up - thank god. I can tell you, trying to push the wiring through 4" of damn foam and a half inch of ply aint fun and why I opt for Open Grid benchwork!!!

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1/4" The wire is only 32 gauge so if it snags on something it bends and screws up. Once I attach the 22 gauge it goes through much easier. I just don't like having to push stuff through foam etc :)
 


wombat457 said:
1/4" The wire is only 32 gauge so if it snags on something it bends and screws up. Once I attach the 22 gauge it goes through much easier. I just don't like having to push stuff through foam etc :)
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So, taping the wires to one of those brass rods you have, and feeding the rod through the hole first wouldn't work then ?
 
wombat457 said:
Have the final Park/Depot light wired up - thank god. I can tell you, trying to push the wiring through 4" of damn foam and a half inch of ply aint fun and why I opt for Open Grid benchwork!!!

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Really like that, maybe next time I'll try foam, you seem to be able to do everything so much easier and without the hassle.
 
It has it's good points as well as it's bad points. My first few layouts were all built on a base of 3/4 ply topped with 2" Foam. The foam certainly made it easy to put in tree's and so forth.

After that I realised that drilling through the stuff was a pain and messy and having to crawl under it all to do any wiring was a real pain on the back. That's when I converted to open grid and cookie cutter sub road bed. Having to fill in the "gaps" was a bit of a nuisance but made everything else so much easier.
 


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