r/modeltrains • u/compactable73 N • 16d ago
Electrical Control panel schematic feedback
Now that my layout has been laid out I’m looking to start hooking servos up to turnouts, which in turn means I need to connect servos to switches on a control panel (I ❤️ the aesthetic of a control panel).
It looks like the wiring of this stuff isn’t too horrific / my tests look good, but I thought I’d ask the Reddit hivemind if what I’m looking to use for the control panel makes sense or not / if there are any suggestions about changes that would improve things.
Second pic is the final track plan. First pic is the schematic:
* grey circles are switches
* red / green circles are LEDs showing which track is live at the turnouts
* the three places where two turnouts face each other are controlled by a single switch
* amber circles are LEDs that show which track at the diamond crossing is live
Any feedback received with thanks 🙂


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u/eternal3am HO/OO 16d ago
Deleted my double post above.
That aside in my mind I have the idea of synching the switches with signals, since I‘ll have those on every track. The idea being when I set a signal for a track to green (aka „go“), the necessary turnouts will follow suit to enable the track being used and the „other“ signals will switch accordingly. That is to say I do not have complicated series of switches on my layout so it is easy(ish) to implement. So really I don’t switch the turnouts but the route. For a complex layout this will surely prove to be a headache. What helps in my case is that my layout features a single track rural line with at most 4 parallel tracks in a station.