I have a model railroad and wanting to simulate day and night, have lights in buildings turn on and off at the appropriate time, I purchased an electronic clock system from a company in the US. This was about 8 years ago and the company is no longer in existence.
The clock is a fast clock where the ratios can be altered so that 24 hours can be speeded up to be in an hour, 2 hours, 3 hours etc as required.
The system is 12v and has 14 outputs from which lights in buildings can be connected.
Each output has pre-determined on / off times, all of which are unique from each other. The purpose being that the building lights will go on and off at different times during the night times as triggered by the clock throughout a 24 hour cycle. In other words, individual building lights are triggered on and off accordingly as the time comes around.
My problem is that the more outputs that I connect to lights in buildings, so the 12v power is reduced accordingly. Therefore if 12 output connections have 'on' times at the same time, the power to the 'on' outputs is reduced to 1 volt per output. In other words the power will fluctuate up and down as and when the clock switches each output on or off.
Any ideas how I can keep the power constant to each of the buildings?
Thanks in advance!
BTW Once this is resolved I have a similar problem with the other part of the system that controls night and day, sunrise sunset for the mains lights.
The clock is a fast clock where the ratios can be altered so that 24 hours can be speeded up to be in an hour, 2 hours, 3 hours etc as required.
The system is 12v and has 14 outputs from which lights in buildings can be connected.
Each output has pre-determined on / off times, all of which are unique from each other. The purpose being that the building lights will go on and off at different times during the night times as triggered by the clock throughout a 24 hour cycle. In other words, individual building lights are triggered on and off accordingly as the time comes around.
My problem is that the more outputs that I connect to lights in buildings, so the 12v power is reduced accordingly. Therefore if 12 output connections have 'on' times at the same time, the power to the 'on' outputs is reduced to 1 volt per output. In other words the power will fluctuate up and down as and when the clock switches each output on or off.
Any ideas how I can keep the power constant to each of the buildings?
Thanks in advance!
BTW Once this is resolved I have a similar problem with the other part of the system that controls night and day, sunrise sunset for the mains lights.