Cobalt Alpha, Cobalt IP digital point motors and powered Signals

[Nokonium]

Thanks Brian.

It must be about 45 years since I soldered components on to Veroboard, now I can only just see the bands on resistors let alone work out the resistance.

[Tinker]

Thanks Brian.

It must be about 45 years since I soldered components on to Veroboard, now I can only just see the bands on resistors let alone work out the resistance.

If you have a newish mobile phone, take a photo and enlarge the picture on your phone screen,,,,,

[Nokonium]

I do that quite a lot, also have a magnifier app on my phone.

[Nokonium]

UPDATE

I went the REX route but needed assistance from DCC Concepts (who's customer support is amazing) who said that there was a basic problem that stops frog and signal switching with the REX. That is that the frog needs to be normally on and the signal needs only a pulse to activate it. They did recommend a solution however and pointed me in the direction of Train-tech who make DCC decoders for Dapol motorised signals.

What I now have working is the Cobalt iP and the Train-tech decoder connected to the DCC accessory bus, both programmed to use the same address. When I press the Alpha panel switch I change the point, switch the frog polarity and change the signal,