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(...) Hi Rosco, Its a sensor from the company (URL). The sensor measures the angle of the wire. Sadly the sensor costs around 140 euros, but its very good for this purpose, and it is made specially for the RCX. The normal rotation sensor from LEGO (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam, FTX)
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(...) Very nice! I think your pendular control is a first for a LEGO crane! What is that sensor? Is it just a position sensor, or does it measure rotation speed? ROSCO (21 years ago, 28-Jun-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam, FTX)
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(...) Hi Rosco, I have now equipped my crane with one of the sensors for controlling the penduling of the container, I have placed a few pictures and videos on my homepage to show how the sensor and regulator works. Anders (21 years ago, 28-Jun-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam, FTX)
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(...) Hi Rosco, Thanks, yep, that will be the work for the next days. I can see you have entered 'stage 2' (URL) its looking good. Anders (21 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam, FTX)
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(...) Looking good, Anders! I'm interested to see how you set up the sensors. ROSCO (21 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam, FTX)
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Hi everyone, (2 URLs) Right now I am building a scale model of a 60 ton Container Crane, 1:40 from KONECRANES. The prototype is almost complete and will be rigged for testing and education purpose at Technical University of Denmark, in the near (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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(...) Thanks! FTX forces me to keep the pages nice and simple, which is a Good Thing™! (...) (Goes off to practice the new word) (...) Actually, I have used but a fraction of my hinges - a certain other project of mine used over 100 of them! (...) (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jun-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam)
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Rosco! Excuse me for not replying to this earlier. I have been following along and you make some mighty fine FTX pages sir. This is just wild. Saying its huge does not even cover it. In fact I have made a new word to describe its size, its not just (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jun-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam)
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(...) Ooops sorry TJ! I forgot you did that! In return I'll let you pinch my method using bushes and liftarms to "round off" the corners a bit ;) ROSCO (21 years ago, 19-Jun-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam)
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(...) I first used this method in my marine pedestal crane: (URL) winch was used for the 16-part main block. (URL) was powerful enough to lift 48 pounds! Linking the two 40-toothed gears together with axles works very well. It is a bit uneven (i.e. (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jun-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam)
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