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Re: Automated shunter/switcher
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:39:02 GMT
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On 2007-03-21, Brian Davis brdavis@iusb.edu wrote:
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The one I always liked the best (can’t find it right now... ah, here it is I
think) was Gronk:
http://news.lugnet.com/announce/moc/?n=2683
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So, inspired by Gronk’s idea of having the whole mechanisme in the engine,
I finally managed to create something that seems to be working, while still
not standing in way of the original design (except for the lowest part at
the rear, but I can live with that.
Magnets are coupled sideways, giving it enough strength to pull at least
3 light cars, while still being able to decouple them with the weak
micromotor (to be driven by a separate DCC decoder).
And now for something you’d never had guessed: I discovered that it is fairly
tight having to put gears’n’stuff in a 2-wide area! :)
P.S. Question to an UK/US-person: Uncouple(r)? Decouple(r)? Doesn’t matter?
--
Matija
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| (...) Very quick work getting a working decoupler in such a tiny space. I thought you may have bitten off more than you could chew but it seems I've happily been proved wrong. Awesome. (...) Well I'm not UK/US but I'm certainly a native speaker... (...) (17 years ago, 11-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) The one I always liked the best (can't find it right now... ah, here it is I think) was Gronk: (URL) not built it yet because I don't use LDCC or have an RCX on-board a train, but the idea is nice. And with those IR-controled Power Function (...) (17 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains)
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