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Re: Weeping Willow
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Date: 
Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:52:16 GMT
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Robin Sather wrote:

Robin, in regards to your 'tree'. What would you like the settings to
be? ie, shaking, stop or wiggle or whatever it does... etc... I'm going
to tie it into the Switch Track RCX.

First of all, it's a "Whomping Willow", and it doesn't shake or
wiggle, it "trembles with rage and anger" at anyone who comes near!

;-)

I know... heh heh. I was being elusive. ;-)


Therefore, I think that if you timed it so that when the train rolled
in, just turn on the power to that motor for a bit, then turn it off
again, that would be fine.

where is the tree in relation to the station? Does it activate before or
after the stop?

Dean



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  Re: Weeping Willow
 
(...) I plan to put it behind (below) the station about 20 studs, near the mountain side. If the RCX was in that ridge, the wire would reach no problem. If you timed it to activate roughly at the time the train would be pulling in, or perhaps just (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)

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  Re: Weeping Willow
 
(...) First of all, it's a "Whomping Willow", and it doesn't shake or wiggle, it "trembles with rage and anger" at anyone who comes near! ;-) Therefore, I think that if you timed it so that when the train rolled in, just turn on the power to that (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)

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