AZATRAX - MRD6X HexDetex

Hi folks, I'd like to show you a little demonstration of the AZATRAX HexDetex, model train detector, it's an infrared detection system with six sensor applications. The sensors are, being infrared, are two piece, transmitter and receiver, and they can work in two ways, they could would across the track, or as a reflector on the underside of a car, to detect cars in a track or in a yard, or anything like that. So, I wanted to show you what the sensors look like, these are extras. I just hooked up two pair for this demonstration. Now, to power the board, you can use a small wall transformer, doesn't need much current, probably a one amp is way more than enough, anywhere between eight and 15 volts AC or DC. The two black wires coming into the board are the wires from the power supply, the other wires are color coded wires from the sensors and receivers that go to the boards, and as I say, I'm just using two pair. In this case, we're showing that, say you have a hidden staging track, or a track behind some buildings, or other scenery, and you want to be able to see actually where the train is in any particular time. We have a simple track diagram down here with LEDs, and for this demonstration, we have yellow LED and a red LED, and yellow LED would mean that you're getting close to the point where you want to stop, and then the red LED would mean that you would stop there, and of course you can use any color LED that you like depending on your situation. So, as you can see, what happens here, as the train, as the train rolls on, and it gets to this point, that would activate the yellow detector, or yellow LED as a warning, and then as you go a little bit further, the red LED would be activated as your stop warning. And... In this case, I'm just using an across the track system where I'm actually going straight down, above the track to the underside of the track, and using a beam that way, but you can certainly go horizontally across the track depending on your application, or as as I say, using a reflector system where the sensor and receiver, or the transmitter and receiver are actually at slight an angle so they would reflect off the bottom of a car, and give you a reading that way, and then there's complete instructions that are included with the AZATRAX that will give you the, the... wiring for either, for either systems. It works quite well, and it's easy to hook up. I think the circuit board is great, it's got some great terminal connectors to insert the wire, just push down the little button on the circuit board and you can shove in the wire, it's very simple, and as you can see in these, there's a lot of wire included with the transmitter and receiver, so that you can be a fair distance from the circuit board, and of course, you can always extend these wires if need be. So, all in all, it's a great system, it's AZATRAX HexDetex, model train detector, model MRD6X which means six pairs of censors.