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Re: Trolley line automation
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 18 Aug 2001 15:43:11 GMT
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John Gerlach wrote in message ...
> two, or three, or more!) My current GMLTC project is automating the • trolley
> line through our 'downtown' area. Single track, reversing loop on one end,
> turntable on the other. I think I can automate the entire process, • including
> having the trolley stop at the train station, using three RCXs...
Aren't most trolleys double ended, so you can run them in either direction?
What are you going to be using the turntable for? (Not criticising, just
interested!)
Dean Husby did a RCX program for the trolley line on our current VLC layout
which has it running in one direction, stopping and waiting at stations,
then reversing direction when it reaches the other end.
Kevin
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| (...) If I may.... the reason is the pantograph pole-- if the trolley simply reverses, the pole would be pointed in the wrong direction. We toyed with ideas about flipping it back and forth, but nothing really seemed to work out. A double loop (...) (23 years ago, 18-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Yep, "cool and fun" are two big reasons! <grin> Being a computer programmer at my 'day job', programming RCXs is something I enjoy. It's a challenge, trying to reduce a problem to its simplest solution so I can control it with an RCX (or two, (...) (23 years ago, 18-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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