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(...) I'm using a borrowed design prototype from another post here - don't recall enough to credit them right now - but it's a motorized technic beam jutting out perpendicular to the track, intercepting the two magnets and forcing them apart. Wait - (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Now tell me how to make one without using anything that is not lego and without modifying any lego :) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) touch (...) counters (...) OK. You've got my attention now. I'm very interested. How does the train trip the touch sensor? (Please don't say it rams into it). Scott A (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) A wye is a method of reversing the direction of a engine, so that it faces the other way, like a turntable. (crude artwork ---...---(connetion to mainline, or could be mainline) ` ' ` ' y | One leg of it must be insulated, so that you can (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Can someone please tell me what a wye is? (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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In lugnet.trains, James Powell writes: <snip> James makes a number of excellent suggestions. Here's what I feel the most important is (and it's one that non RR's don't know to do), if you plan to do actual switching, that is, this yard is more than (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) Unfortuanately, it can't be done without using something to create isolated blocks. Too see the problem, note that the outside rails of the turnouts are always connected. The inside rails are switched depending on the turnouts position. What (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) I've been playing with that as well. I have about 4' by 10' for my entire layout. (Plus a little L shape on the end 2.5') I've been trying to build a yard that is small but useful. It's been tough. I've got an idea in the track designer have (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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(...) What about yours? (URL) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Near the roundhouse. Not in the yard (...) Usually yes, there would be. (...) No, make it single ended, you don't have enough lenght to make it double ended (...) As many as you can cram into the space you have, + a few more :) Need more info. (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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I am trying to design a yard for the next WAMALUG display and I haven't come up with a decent design yet. Our previous yards were ok, but they were lacking in the function department(the switcher couldn't do anything without crossing the mainline). (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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Ed, Please hurry with the details, I like to here more about how you are "un-coupling" the train cars with the RCX. jt Ed McGlynn wrote in message ... (...) touch (...) counters (...) just (...) back (...) switching (...) this. (...) using (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Scott - Surely I left out a lot of detail regarding the RCX! The RCX is running the train around a circuit in a loop, with inputs from touch and light sensors to determine train passage and location. Randomized counters keep the program from (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Maybe (...) Oops, I mistyped yet again. : ) I was thinking of a train / LEGO club or something for around here. Like MATLUG or something. I think I am still subscribed to loc.us.mi. Scott S. -- Scott E. Sanburn Systems Administrator-Affiliated (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Like lugnet.loc.us.mi? Steve Bliss "Lowell, it's near Grand Rapids, just a few miles past the soap factory" (25 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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"Ed McGlynn" <ejmcglynn@juno.com> wrote in message news:FtoCwJ.314@lugnet.com... (...) manual (...) Does the train trip the RCX? If so, how? Scott A (...) the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) right. From my ScaleFour book: Switch Rails is the bit you are looking for (all are UK terms) Closure rails are the bits leading into the frog, the straight rail out of the frog is the point rail, the curved one is the splice rail, wing rails (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Dan Boger and I have been working on automating some of the points on the WAMALUG layout. We came up with one nifty solution that doesn't require modification to the points nor high torque motors. Our system uses micromotors and rubber bands to turn (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Also see my thoughts on this: (URL) use an RCX for most situations, but I also use a polarity switch for manual applications and for the kids to operate the switch. Ed (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) There are some schemes on the Leo & Lego site for automated points using the polarity switches: (URL) Buiting Visit the LEGO Lexicon: (URL) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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