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Re: automating switching rails
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 27 Apr 2000 20:06:21 GMT
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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 ...
> In lugnet.trains, Scott Arthur writes:
> >
> > "Ed McGlynn" <ejmcglynn@juno.com> wrote in message
> > news:FtoCwJ.314@lugnet.com...
> > > Also see my thoughts on this:
> > > http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/8658/lego/legoindex.htm
> > >
> > > I use an RCX for most situations, but I also use a polarity switch for • manual
> > > applications and for the kids to operate the switch.
> >
> > Does the train trip the RCX? If so, how?
> >
> > Scott A
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>
> Scott -
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> 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 repeating at a predictable point, so it's cool to • just
> sit back and watch the RCX control a train around a loop, throw a switch, • back
> into a siding, pick up a car, bring it out, repeat, and drop the car off on
> another siding. I've really got to get more details about this on the
> website...ah, time...
>
> Ed
> >
> > >
> > > Ed
> > >
> > > In lugnet.trains, Frank Buiting writes:
> > > > In lugnet.trains, Ryan J. Schave writes:
> > > > > I've seen info on Matt's train depot web site about automating • switching
> > > > > rails. I would like to be able to control the motors from the speed
> > > > > regulator. I was thinking of using the 5120 Polarity Switch to do • this.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any thoughts on this? Is there a better way/another way?
> > > >
> > > > There are some schemes on the Leo & Lego site for automated points • using
> > the
> > > > polarity switches: http://carol.wins.uva.nl/~leo/lego.html
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Frank Buiting
> > > >
> > > > Visit the LEGO Lexicon: http://members.chello.nl/~f.buiting/lego/
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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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| (...) 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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