Subject:
|
Re: NALUG a hit at the Great Edmonton Train Show Sept 22-23, 2001
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.org.ca.nalug
|
Date:
|
Thu, 27 Sep 2001 18:33:06 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
2670 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.org.ca.nalug, John Gerlach writes:
> In lugnet.org.ca.nalug, James Brown writes:
> > Electrical tape. A bit of electrical tape to break the conductivity between
> > adjoined track sections, and multiple controllers per loop. (I strongly
> > recommend that anyone doing this *label* their controllers, else it becomes
> > confusing... we had 8 controllers at GETS - 4 for track, 4 for other powered
> > gizmos)
>
> If you're looking for an easy way to label the controllers, just use 2x2
> tiles or plates. You can put two on the track power connectors where they
> connect to the track, one on the end of the 9volt wire, and a couple on the
> studs of each speed regulator.
>
> The GMLTC does this for all our 9volt connections, including the ones going
> to/from the RCXs. Since most of our wires are built into each section, it
> would be quite difficult to figure out which one goes where!
That's a great idea, although not what we used; I printed 1/2 pages of our
track plan with the relevant section of track highlighted; it worked really
well.
I just suggested to some of our fancy-device types that they could use the
tile suggestion slightly modified - using a 1x2 colored tile and a 1x2 tile
with printed arrow to indicate which way the wire needs to be hooked up for
polarity to work properly. :) (our roundhouse, for example has 6 wires
coming out the back, and those hook up to 6 wires coming out of the controller.)
thanks,
James
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
12 Messages in This Thread:
  
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
