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Hello from Nottingham
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 6:07 pm
by MartinS
New to here .. so hello to all.
No layout at present, have to get the RTR stuff down from the loft that we had when the kids were young.
Always been interested in signalling, and where the trains are on the layout, and RFID seems a good solution.
Can't find any topics on RFID, so looking for people who have experience on this.
Martin
Re: Hello from Nottingham
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 7:18 pm
by IanS
Welcome to the forum. I'm sure someone will have answers to your questions, they invariably do!
Re: Hello from Nottingham
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 7:24 pm
by Walkingthedog
Welcome to a great forum Martin.
Re: Hello from Nottingham
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 8:11 pm
by bulleidboy
Welcome Martin - a great forum.
Re: Hello from Nottingham
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 8:27 pm
by Mr Bones
Welcome to the forum Martin. Friendly helpful bunch on here, enjoy.
Re: Hello from Nottingham
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 8:54 pm
by Brian
Welcome to the Forum.
RFID just hasnt taken off as first thought. Not sure why?
Hornby were looking at it, but then seemed to have dropped it. There are AFIK no commercial RFID units made for model railway use? MERG have dabbled, but nothing constructive AFAIK?
Re: Hello from Nottingham
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:59 pm
by MartinS
Brian,
Well, there are commercial units for model railway use .. CTI do one, as do MRCS in the US, and there's also traintraxx. The trouble is they all seem very expensive, especially if one is wanting to do train detection at many points in a layout. Is it a chicken and egg situation? I think in the US they do a lot more shunting operations.
Martin