Today was the first time I was able to successfully navigate a locomotive
from 1 track to the other. I still need to send all the commands needed to
the turntable micro by hand. The sequence is like this:
1 turn the table to the desired track
2 enable that track so it can be powered by the turntable
3 enable midpoint breaker
4 set direction of the locomotive
5 power the locomotive
now just wait until the locomotive is in the middle of the turntable it
will stop automatically.
6 reset power on the locomotive (this also resets the midpoint breaker)
7 turn the table to the new track
8 enable that track so it can be powered by the turntable
9 set direction of the locomotive
10 power the locomotive
11 turn off the power when locomotive is at its destination.
All this will be part of my track software that controls my complete track
but I still need to do quite some programming on that. On the other hand it
proves the concept is working. Also the alignment of the turntable is
stable up to now. I aligned it last saturday and even by installing it in
the track and removing it again 2 times did not change anything in the
alignment.