Wiring DCC Concepts point motors

I ordered a set of six DCC concepts 'S' levers from Platform Models. These duly arrived, so sat down to work out how one wires these things up.

  They give you this nice piece of PCB to solder everything to (good idea)

 Now, this is where it gets interesting. DCC concepts ask you to use there PSU2 power pack. It is a double wound transformer that gives you +9v and -9v so you only need to use one set of contacts on the S lever. Not having one of these power packs and using a normal '9v wall plug in' type transformer you need to use both sets of contacts on the S lever to change the polarity.

This is what you have to do.

Are you sitting comfortably ?

They give you a nice piece of PCB so the first thing to do is wire up to the wiring harness supplied with the Dcc concepts lever frame to the PCB. Note: there are 2 Reds, 2 Greens and 2 Black wires so, wire them in the right order, as they come from the plug. The first 3 wires, Green, Black and Red solder to terminal 1, 2, 3 respectively, then, Blue to 4, Orange to 5, Black to 6, Grey to 7, Green to 8 and Red to 5. Its worth wiring all these up as you never know it may come in handy in the future for signals, lights etc. (See photo below), Terminal 1 is to the left. The black and Red wire curling off to the left is the power supply feed, ignore that for the moment.

DCC Concepts wiring

    

Terminals 1, 2 and 3 are a momentary switch ie: Peco, seep point motors. You won't need these for slow action point motors.

Terminals 4 and 5 are your + and - input supply from your transformer for each lever switch. these need to be looped across for each lever switch.

Terminals 4 and 9 are looped together

Terminals 5 and 8 are looped together. This is the one that reverse's the polarity on the S lever.

Terminals 6 and 7 go to your point motor, that's the nice purple wires going to the terminal block in the photo below.

For more than one switch you will have to loop these over to each switch make sure terminal 4 and 9 are connected together and 5 and 8. Hopefully you can see how i did it in the photo.

      All plugged in under the layout

 Top side of the PCB all soldered up

Screwed to the bottom of the box i made, to house the lever frame

Think i will get around to painting these at some point (sorry for the pun). I believe that DCC Concepts are going to make a set of signal box windows to put around your lever frame.

Tried and tested and yes, it all works, "Yeah"

 It sounds complicated but it can all be done sitting at your workbench, listening to your favourite tunes on the radio, soldering iron in one hand and wires in the other. The PCB i held down with a lump of Blu Tack. 

"SIMPLES"