IBT-2 Power Shield (Video

[@robleathley6024]

I am by no means an expert with respect to electronics however, I have appreciated your thorough explanations and have learned a fair bit over the years. This latest video is no exception. With all of the many projects currently on my workbench, I’ll eagerly await this appearing on your Tindie site. This will make a great addition to my layout. Thanks Hans and please keep the videos coming.

[@IoTT]

Thank you. In fact, it is quite some fun developing that stuff ;-)

[@nordvesterdalmodelrailroad]

Super awesome!

[@philiphillebrand2965]

Very nice Hans, I am currently building mine using an L298, but now I will look forward to getting your new power shield board. 👍 (I have one of your Red Hat boards, that I got a month or two ago.) Hans, all your hard work is much appreciated. Thank you. Phil.

[@IoTT]

Thank you. You can even combine the IBT-2 power shield with the L298. Use 1 channel of the motorshield as prog track, and the IBT-2 shield for your main track.

[@philiphillebrand2965]

@@IoTT OK, yes I see, you can just stack a number of the various track power modules (IBT-2 & L298) to control a number of "power districts". (watched the video again, a couple of times ... yes you did say this in the video.)

[@IoTT]

This is correct. In the upcoming version of DCC EX you can have more than 2 track outputs. You can have Main, Prog as usual, and then a number of DC districts. I am not sure how many, but it looks like four, maybe six. Not sure right now if it is possible on an Uno, but on a Mega it does work, I tested it so far with one additional DC district to verify my board works. Each DC district gets assigned a DCC address and then you control it like a decoder on that address, only that it changes polarity and voltage (PWM ratio) of the track.

[@matthewesler8379]

@@IoTT look good

[@nialatelevoj6113]

I bought your "PowerShield Rev.3" card on Tindie. I hadn't had time to use it. I note by looking again at your video n°107 that the electronic components C2, C5, C6 are not present and welded on my card. Is this normal or an oversight during the manufacture of the card? Congratulations to all of your outstanding contributions. Best regards

[@IoTT]

No worries, that was just a design variant in case there was a problem with the size of the capacitor on the IBT-2 board. The plan was to remove the large capacitor and replace it by four smaller ones on the base board. It turned out the hole in the board would allow for stacking them closely enough, so the additional capacitors were not needed.

[@hans8975]

Wonderful stuff as usual!

[@IoTT]

Thank you!

[@DuncSargentsKarstValleyRR]

That is amazingly awesome!

[@IoTT]

Thank you!

[@geesharp6637]

Two questions. 1. Does the current version of DCCEX support this shield or upcoming version. 2. How's the shield coming? I'm holding off an order of smaller things and want to save on the international shipping.

[@IoTT]

1. Yes, no problem. 2. Probably about 2 weeks for the version with the external IBT-2, and about 4 weeks for the version with the IBT-2 mounted board. I am waiting for some components, right now.

[@matthewesler8379]

@@IoTT how far away is dc district

[@IoTT]

@@matthewesler8379 That is a question for the DCC EX team. But for sure the Powershield will be ready when they release their software that supports it.

[@matthewesler8379]

@@IoTT thank you

[@matthewesler8379]

Is any news dc district on dcc controller