Great Northwestern Railway

The blog post on configuring a node raised some eyebrows since the nodes come essentially already configured for detection.  I had to configure a bunch of Tortoise stall motor drive outputs, so presenting a step-by-step for configuring those kinds of outputs. For this post, I am using an RR-Cirkits Tower-LCC board with an RR-Cirkits SMD-8 stall motor driver board attached.  As before, everything is done via JMRI Panel Pro.   Open Panel Pro and then the OpenLCB config tool: As before, open the node and click on the Config Dialog: You'll see the info upload from the node.  This is a tower LCC with several points already configured.  We will do point 11: Click on tab Line 11 and, just as before, name the point.  Note that it changes to an orange background to show it was not changed on the node: Click on "Write" and it's in! Now scroll down to the Producer/Consumer options.  The whole discussion about producers and consumers can get a bit

One of the hardest things about learning about a new hardware system is to simply understand the parts and how they go together.  Here is an introductory walkaround of the LCC components on the GNW.  In the video, you will see the "hubs" - collections of nodes, nodes, both Tower-LCC and Signal-LCC, how the LCC Power-Point ties in, as well as the USB computer interface.  Also presents a few ideas on how to install the system. Link is   HERE Enjoy!