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| | | To All, I know we watched in amusement and horror as Steve, Tony, Jamie (Corrected spelling), and others switched trains. Here is an automated one I saw: (URL) I never built one, but it would be great! I have some motors and battery boxes from those (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| | | | | Re: Automated points —Chris Leach
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| | | | | (...) Scott,give it a try if you have the parts and let us know how it comes out. (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| | | | | | | Re: Automated points —Scott Sanburn
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| | | | | | Chris, (...) I will see. It might be an alternative to Mindstorms, it might not. I will try ASAP. Scott S. -- (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Automated points —Chris Leach
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| | | | | | | (...) Scott by the way i'm already thinking about the next show(i need help:-) )What i was thinking was since we are going to get even more space at the next show maybe we should look into making a western area..... (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Automated points —Scott Sanburn
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| | | | | | | | | Chris & All, (...) Don't we all? ; ) (...) Maybe a theme park kind of thing? Chad Smith, the guy down here, has some custom WW stuff. I can see if he is interested. Scott S. -- (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Automated points —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | (...) If we get more space could we consider doing something other than a hollow rectangle? Perhaps something with a walk in area that gives more linear footage of viewing space and also reduces the need for three tables deep in order to get (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Automated points —Tim Strutt
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| | | | | | (...) I bought those ZNAP sets for this exact purpose. I tried building automated points with the older motor, but as someone had mentioned, it just didn't have the torque. So I got some ZNAP motor packs and now it works great. I used the direct (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| | | | | | | | Automated monorail stop (was Re: Automated points) —Peter Guenther
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| | | | | | This is a little off-topic, but hey, you knew that when you saw who wrote it. At the show this weekend, I started thinking, "Wouldn't it be neat to have a mindstorms monorail station that stopped each train for about 20 seconds, made the ding-dong (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Automated monorail stop (was Re: Automated points) —Chris Leach
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| | | | | | | (...) Ummmmm YES!!!! (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Automated monorail stop (was Re: Automated points) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | (...) We were talking about monorail reversing at the show on Sunday. I suggested that we could make a motorised reverser that you just left running. If you had several of these at various stations you'd get random behaviour... sometimes monorails (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Automated monorail stop (was Re: Automated points) —Tony Hedglen
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| | | | | | | (...) Here is a link that might help you idea. (URL) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Automated monorail stop (was Re: Automated points) —Peter Guenther
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| | | | | | I put a terrible photo up at (URL) that the only digital camera I have is a Lego cam, so the photo is poor. Just a quickie to give people an idea of what I did. (Tony: I'm talking about a stop, not a switch). Basically, the mini motor has three 3:1 (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Automated monorail stop (was Re: Automated points) —Peter Guenther
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| | | | | | | (...) Sorry, Tony, didn't look carefully enough at the link you sent and thought it was about a point kind of switch, not what I call a stop. My design uses the stop without modification. Automating the monorail point should still not be difficult. (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Automated monorail stop (was Re: Automated points) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) Nope. Just leave a heavily geared down drive turning the knob of one of these monorail reversing tracks running constantly... that is constantly rotating (very slowly due to the torque needed) the control plate knob. Depending on where the (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Automated monorail stop (was Re: Automated points) —Peter Guenther
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| | | | | | (...) I'm an idiot. I was so fixated on getting the switch to go from one position to another, I forgot that you don't have to reverse! Rotary motion.... duh! Yeah, my setup works with that; I just checked. The motor and gear ratios could be made (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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| | | | | Re: Automated points —Tony Hedglen
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| | | | (...) I built the switcher last night. It works totally awesome. It’s the best design I’ve seen and built so far. The only problem I found is the motor gives off a lot of torque when the switch is done being switched. Sometimes the motor would pull (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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