{"id":906,"date":"2016-07-14T20:41:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T01:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=906"},"modified":"2019-01-30T18:26:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T00:26:10","slug":"a-set-up-for-my-lokprogrammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2016\/07\/14\/a-set-up-for-my-lokprogrammer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Set-up for My LokProgrammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned recently that I had acquired a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2016\/07\/01\/about-those-distractions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new LokProgrammer<\/a> during their summer sale.\u00a0 The device is only about 4&#8243; square and when connected, has three cables attached to it.\u00a0 However, I found it a bit awkward to handle all of this while using it.\u00a0 So I took a short break from layout construction and cobbled together this little programming board for my programmer.\u00a0 It makes it easy and portable to set up for programming a loco.\u00a0 Here it is plugged into my train room computer:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/LokProgrammer_Board.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-908\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/LokProgrammer_Board.jpg\" alt=\"LokProgrammer_Board\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/LokProgrammer_Board.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/LokProgrammer_Board-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/LokProgrammer_Board-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I attached a piece of track to the board with track nails and small screws.\u00a0 The screws also serve as wheel stops in case the loco inches too far towards an end.\u00a0 The LokProgrammer, at right, is also fastened with a screw through the hole in it&#8217;s center.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t want to torque down on the screw for fear of damaging the plastic case, so I glued a couple strips of thin rubber to the case bottom.\u00a0 Now the programmer won&#8217;t have a tendency to rotate around the attaching screw.\u00a0 The track connections make it easy to connect\/disconnect if needed.\u00a0 And the board sits on some little rubber feet so it doesn&#8217;t slide around.\u00a0 The power supply and USB cable are stored in a small plastic case (not shown) when not in use.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pleased with the result, and it made for an enjoyable change of pace this week.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Jack<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned recently that I had acquired a new LokProgrammer during their summer sale.\u00a0 The device is only about 4&#8243; square and when connected, has three cables attached to it.\u00a0 However, I found it a bit awkward to handle all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2016\/07\/14\/a-set-up-for-my-lokprogrammer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrical-dcc","category-locos-rolling-stock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}