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> OK, so I made a trolley go back and forth using NQC and my RCX. My
> wife's response to this was, "I that why you wanted a Mindstorms set?"
> Her tone implied that while whe thought it was cool, she also thought
> that I had just reached a new level of nuts. Anyway, the real reason for
> getting an RCX was not just to make a point to point trolley but also to
> dabble in LDCC. Truthfully, LDCC scars me a bit. MY trains are big, and
> I don't want to burn out my RCX, but I digress.
>
> I would like to improve my trolley. First, I would like the lights to
> stay on at the stations. Sencond, I would like to put my trolley poles
> back on. Since the trolley reverses direction, I took the trolley poles
> off because at least half of the time, the wrong pole would be in the up
> position. My thinking is that LDCC would allow the lights to stay on,
> and I could, theoretically, use a motor to raise and lower the trolley
> poles. Because I would like the trolley to remain automated, my big
> question is whether I can use LDCC and NQC at the same time. Since NQC
> and LDCC require different firmware on the RCX my initial thought is no,
> I cannot do that. I thought that Mark Riley said that the input ports
> are still active on an LDCC RCX, so I wonder how I could use those ports
> to control an LDCC'ed trolley.
Chris,
I'm not up on my trolly design. Can you explain or show pictures of the "lights"
and "trolly poles"
You can not use NQC and LDCC. It's like running two operating systems on your PC.
Only one works at a time.
Steve
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