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Re: Future GBCs
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lugnet.org.us.laflrc
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Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:34:15 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.laflrc, Steve Hassenplug wrote:
> For non-GBC train loops, one RCX could control the
> whole siding (detect train, throw switch, power
> track, watch for oncoming trains...)
Yes, although I was hoping to come up with a way of doing it using the
switching RCX's "spare" in/outputs.
> At the train show last weekend, my train had 2 GBC
> cars, and two container cars. Counting would not be
> useful, there.
I was thinking more along the lines of identifying GBC trains. If there were
three trains along the mainline, two non-GBC with 6 & 8 cars, respectively, and
a GBC train with four cars, the magnetic sensor potentially could detect which
is the GBC train to be shunted onto the side track. Yes, we could do this with
the touch sensor & cylinder set-up as well, but the car counting gives the
possibility of multiple trains, each identified by a specific number of cars.
Note that the software could adjust to changing the GBC train length on the
fly, as it would be the *only* train hitting a touch sensor as well. It's more
in the way of an added feature possibility with that sensor setup.
> > a two-station GBC train is a *lot* easier to
> > engineer than a multi-station GBC train like
> > we had at BF'05...
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> I was unhappy with the reliability of our GBC train
> at BF. It required some attention. The GTX GBC
> train did not.
Something fundementally different from earlier GBC (two-station) set-ups, or
just the fact that it wasn't nearly as demanding on positioning (no worry about
being "on station" but not enough to throw the polarity switch)?
--
Brian Davis
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| (...) ... (...) I was just thinking about this. For non-GBC train loops, one RCX could control the whole siding (detect train, throw switch, power track, watch for oncoming trains...) (...) At the train show last weekend, my train had 2 GBC cars, (...) (19 years ago, 18-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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