Wiring points up in the old analogue fashion can be daunting. The Hornby R8247 Accessory and Point Decoder is a brilliant way to change points and operate accessories with minimal wiring and fuss. On layouts with numerous points, this can mean that there are metres upon metres of cabling plus a whole bank of switches. Hours can be spent carefully wiring up the points only to find a fault or an intermittent connection, which means more hours of crawling about on the floor trying to locate the problem! With the Hornby digital system, these horrors can be but a distant memory. The Hornby R8247 Accessory/Point Decoder can be programmed to accommodate four-point motors or solenoid-operated accessories, plus other electrical accessories that require a constant or delayed current flow, such as a turntable. Connecting the points or accessories to the Hornby Accessory/Point Decoder is straightforward. The four outputs are factory set for the operation of solenoid (point) motors, however, by adjusting the CV settings of each output a graduation of varying ‘bursts’ of current up to a constant current (turntable motor operation, lighting, etc.) can be obtained for each individual output.
