AndrewMabin
New Member
As a model railway enthusiast that does NOT wish to travel the DCC route, I have been searching for a low cost decoder that can be positioned at each point/switch motor to enable either a left or a right movement. I am assuming that the best encoder would be a combination of Arduino products. I am trying to find a circuit loosely based on the concept of a gate/garage door remote which uses 6 or 8 dip switches to set a receiving address so that I can connect all my points onto a single bus rather than have a multitude of wires running around the layout. Is this feasible for a novice to build? I have not been able to find anything on the net other than RF type systems (which I don't want to use) and would appreciate it if an expert out there can point me in the right direction or at very least, tell me I am barking up the wrong tree. Thanking you in advance. Andrew