NCE Mini-Panel Manual - page 4
Wiring of the mini panel for this example is straight forward. Each pushbutton has two
terminals. We connect one terminal from each button together and then tie it to one
of the "GND" terminals of the Mini Panel. Then we tie the remaining terminal from
each button to a separate input terminal of the Mini Panel. The last connection(s) to
be made is the Cab Bus connection. There are two Cab Bus connectors making it
easy to 'daisy chain' the Cab Bus through the mini panel. Once the wiring is complete
it is time to setup the Mini Panel to send the commands for correct alignment of the
yard switches when each button is pushed.
Control panel setup example
In the example there are three DCC controlled turnouts with accessory addresses of 1,
2 and 3 as noted in small text on the panel drawing above.
What we want to accomplish:
Press button 1 to align the turnouts for track 1, press 2 to align for track 2, 3 for track 3
and so on.
Pressing button 1 will need to send the following command
Accessory 1 (turnout 1) to the Normal (straight position)
Button 2 will need to send
Accessory 1 to Reverse (diverging) position
Accessory 2 to Reverse (diverging)
Button 3 will need to send
Accessory 1 to Reverse (diverging)
Accessory 2 to Normal (straight)
Accessory 3 to Reverse (diverging)
Button 4 will need to send
Accessory 1 to Reverse (diverging)
Accessory 2 to Normal (straight)
Accessory 3 to Normal (straight)
To set up the Mini Panel:
1. Turn off system power or unplug the Mini Panel from the Cab Bus
2. Plug a ProCab into the "SETUP" jack of the Mini Panel
3. Turn on the system power or plug in the Cab Bus.
NOTE: a ProCab will only be recognized if it is plugged in to the SETUP jack before
Cab Bus power is applied to the Mini Panel.
NOTE: in this example we will be using the Mini Panel at its default cab bus address
of 3 so make sure that any other cab bus device with the address of 3 is disconnected.
After several seconds the mini panel will detect the presence of the ProCab and you
should see an opening LCD display of:
NCE MINI-PANEL
VERSION 1.00
Press ENTER on the ProCab to get the main display for panel setup
1=SETUP 2=MACRO
3=TEST OPERATION
Last revised: 9 December 2008 Page 4