It took a couple of weekends, but its finally done. All the wiring under the table and above the table (i.e. the control panel) is complete. Feeders wired into the bus (the red and black 12-gauge wire seen on the left), wiring to the switch motors and spur blocks (Cat5 wire). You'll also recognize the power supply that I made several posts ago feeding +5V and -5V to the control panel, and I decided to put the main AC switch (bottom of the picture) on the skirt of the table rather than in the control panel. This made me a lot more comfortable, not only by not having "high" AC voltage in with the low voltage control panel, but also made more sense from a cable routing standpoint.
The control panel was also fun to wire up. 6 dual-pole switches for each spur block, a single pole momentary switch for the turntable motor (but I don't have that yet), 7 LED's each with a current limiting resistor (that's what most of the heat-shrink tubing is for that you see), and four momentary buttons for the switch motors. All in all, it went together pretty well according to plan. I only wired in one LED backwards and mixed up two buttons -- fairly easy fixes.
But the biggest payoff for all of this work is the ability now to have a train run around the layout! Which of course I have done a few times now...
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