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decommissioned turnout cannot change its state; such turnout can still be used in routes,
however, if the current state of the turnout matches the turnout state required by the
route.
Decommissioning is useful for each object, that will be prevented from being operated
during operation of the layout. An object can be decommissioned at any time during
operation. It is not necessary, to turn on edit mode before.
Objects are decommissioned by clicking on the object with the right mouse button and
then selecting the command Decommission in the popup menu. If this command is applied
to a decommissioned object, then the object is put into operation again.
Even though decommissioned objects cannot be operated, they can still be accessed and
selected in lists or referred to by other elements without limitation. In particular decommissioned
objects do still exist.
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14.11 Turnout Position Control
Turnout position control can be used to protect turnouts, that are currently locked in
routes, against outside interferences or operation failures.
Turnout position control is based on different categories of turnout status:
a) The digital system stores and reports back the most recent turnout command (logical
turnout state). This information can be for example used to detect, if a turnout is operated
by an external handheld.
b) The turnout decoder can report back the electrical status of the turnout drive. This
feature usually requires a turnout decoder, which is able to report back the current
status to the digital system, and certain circuitry associated with the turnout drive,
which reports the turnout status back to the decoder. This information can be used to
detect, if the turnout drive failed to execute a turnout command issued by the digital
system.
c) The electrical status of the turnout is reported back to the digital system or the computer,
respectively, by feedback input contacts, which are associated with a separate
feedback encoder. This information can be used, too, to detect, if the turnout drive
failed to execute a turnout command issued by the digital system.
TrainController Gold provides turnout position control, too. For this purpose it
supports all methods (a) to (c) listed above.