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Re: Funnel Cakes 'n DCC bits
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Mon, 9 Jul 2001 12:11:19 GMT
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> What a productive day: Iain came by, we built him three modules together,
> and finished my fifth and sixth modules. Anyways, afterwords, I figured out
> HOW TO MAKE FUNNEL CAKES:
nice...Iain (Tony) said he came by last night when we chatted on AIM....
sounds like he is real excited that his modules are built....I soo can't
wait to see his "stuff"....
Which brings me to the question, "Hey Calum, are you going to do a write-up
of who all is going for sure, and what exactly they are bringing....rolling
stock, buildings, etc.
Name # of Modules ETC ETC
give a brief description what each module will have on it....
that sort of thing....
so we can get a rough idea of some of the cool stuff will be on it for Train2.
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> http://peach.mie.utoronto.ca/people/tsangc/nglcl/funnel.jpg
the picture looks like a "opened-up" brain..... I am sure though the funnel
cakes were very yummy. Any thoughts, Calum, in selling Funnel cakes at
Train2 to "raise" money for the room rental...
I am sure the sign on the door "no food or drink" might be somewhat
applicable...however, I don't think it is highly enforced since myself and a
few other individuals "indulged" (brought food and drink to the conference
room).
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> It's not hard at all. They're delicious and easy to make-I did about 95% of
> it-about as easy as making PNLTC modules. About the only difficult part was
> the deep frying, but with help from my mother (Chinese cuisine has a lot of
> hot oil cooking), we got that down fine. Anyways Chris, you missed out :)
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> Also today I spoke with my coworker about the ongoing DCC project. The overall
> strategy is to scratchbuild the encoder and decoder and have a toggle on
> the decoder to disable the DCC and make it work like a normal 9V motor. The
> initial decoder centers around a design out there on the Internet, though
> we're modding it and using a German train club's modifications to fit it to
> throughhole PCB building-ie, using a DIP socket PIC instead of an J leg SMT
> one. The result is that the decoder is gonna be a lot larger than easily
> fit into the train motor, so it'll need to have an extra 2x6 tethered along
> for the first few ones we make.
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> To get it into an integral 9V pack, it'll need to be SMT'd AND will require
> custom board etching with a lot of precision. Unfortunately, we don't have
> easy or moral access to SMT soldering hardware, it'll have to be outboard
> for now. The good news is that the raw part cost will be somewhere near $15
> each instead of $30-50 for a commercial N scale DCC decoder.
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> Of course, people could still buy a DN140 and use that, obviously some
> models can't handle an extra tethered DCC box (ie, Iain's A7 NQT), but the
> Metroliner will definetly work, as will my blue diesel. I suspect many
> other models will too.
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> We've sourced the 16C84 PICs in Toronto (the hardest part to find, the rest
> is all generic components available anywhere), but only the 20 MHz variants.
> I'm mailing the guys who did the mods to see if that's an acceptable
> replacement. We've also got access to PIC programming hardware too.
> Hopefully we'll have some progress to report this week.
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> Calum
nice bit of info....a tad confusing to me since I don't know a whole lot about
electronics, especially when it comes to diodes, soldering, and the like...
but it is good news that you can come up with a low-cost decoding system
for a DCC-based train... Can anyone say Train3????? (hopefully in February
or March)
Benjamin Medinets
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| (...) Yeah, me too! Iain brought over his modular apartment building a la Habitat in Montreal and it was rockin. He needs a second one to increase density, but it'll be cool. (...) Sure, I'll make one up here: (URL) or post yer stuff in an (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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