After yesterdays excitement with the strimmer at the Rocks By Rail Museum it is back to more mundane things at WMD HQ with wiring point motors being the current job.
I had already mounted the point motor and its base to the baseboard but to make wiring easier it was going to be best to take it off again and wire it on the workbench. Before unscrewing the base I made life easier for myself by drawing around the base so that I knew its exact position when I came to remount it.
In my continued desire to make life easier I also determined which wire needed to go to what terminal on the point motor. The red wire, red being for 'straight ahead' was marked up on the motor as was the green wire using a small piece of masking tape and a pencil.
On the bench it was just a case of stripping back the sheaving from this triple wire which has red, green and black wires.
Then a quick dab with the soldering iron had the three wires, plus a loop of black wire to join the two poles of the solenoid on the one side of the motor, all soldered in place ready to go back on the layout.
Just another seven to go for this baseboard section!
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