Re-work

Following on from this morning's post about ditching the LEDs/push-button control panel, here's a revised version of my first strip board layout. It's much more manageable.

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I've retained the resistors for sinking current from the 2-aspect signals, but they could be omitted from the strip-board and fitted in-line in the cabling instead. I really need to buy one and see what they look like.

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