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Re: combining LDCC and NQC style automation?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains
Date: 
Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:27:01 GMT
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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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(...) [snip] (...) [snip] (...) Sorry, I should have thought of that when crossposting to .robotics.rcx (URL) picture has a good view of the headlight and the trolley poles. The trolley poles are the long things on the roof that pick up the power (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)

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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 (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)

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