Looking to enhance your operations with a fast clock system? Do you need multiple displays around the layout? Do you want a configurable, yet easy to use system for your operators? The Iowa Scaled Engineering Fast Clock system may be exactly what you need.
Author: Nathan Holmes
Michael and I are both taking time off to visit family over the holiday, so any orders placed won’t ship until next Monday. To our US customers, have a happy Thanksgiving!
Many of Iowa Scaled Engineering’s products interface with something called MRBus. I’ve been meaning to write this post for some time, but turns out it’s a rather complex narrative to tell. So let’s get right down to it: What the heck is an MRBus, and why would somebody want to use it? In this rather […]
This month, Iowa Scaled reached a new milestone – we have our first ad in a major publication! We’ve decided to start advertising our MRServo products and wireless fast clocks in the most read model railroad publication – Model Railroader magazine. So, to welcome our new customers, we want to help you out with little […]
Even before actual silicon was for sale, Michael and I have been wanting to try the AS3935 “Franklin Lightning Sensor™” from ams AG (formerly austriamicrosystems AG). It comes in a very inconvenient MLPQ-16 package, and requires an on-board antenna, so it was a natural for a breakout board. It’s been on the back burner for […]
A couple weeks back, I removed the old staging yard from my layout in the process of tearing out the old to make room for my new layout. I didn’t need it for the new layout, so we decided to repurpose it for writing an article on complex turnout control using MRBus. It was built […]
We’ve received a number of questions now about hooking MRServo switch machines up to Digital Command Control (DCC) stationary (aka accessory) decoders. It’s not as simple as one might think.
