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Re: motorized points - finally got it!
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 4 Dec 2000 18:28:37 GMT
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Very cool, Steve - glad you got it to work, and I'm looking forward to the
pics. I've never tried rotating the motor vertically - doh! That allows
the motor torque to be shifted to a different plane than the switch throw,
so you won't have to use 100 bricks to keep the housing from twisting apart,
I bet.
Can I assume that the switch was unmodified, except for the removal of the
yellow throw arm?
Ed
In lugnet.trains, Steven Barile writes:
> Yippy I finally got it!
> I have created a motorized switch track that ran 100 switches via RCX
> without tearing the housing apart or missing firing! After 100 I got tired
> of counting and I just stopped it, so it might go for several hundred. It
> sits flush with the bottom of the points so no plate(s) are needed below the
> track. The yellow throw arm was removed so the link is direct to the dark
> gray slider. It is very small and uses a small 8 toothed gear directly
> against a rack. The motor is the new motor with built in gear reduction. The
> motor is mounted such that the axel point straight down and the rack is on
> the side of a technic beam. The housing is pinned in two dimensions so
> things are held together very well.
> I programmed it with the stock RCX software. There is no feedback sensor
> used. The program is simple:
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> power = 8
> on for .1 sec
> power = 4
> on for .1 sec
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> I ran this in a loop with a "2 sec wait" and "motor reverse" statements.
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> I'll post pics add building instructions in the next couple days.
>
> SteveB
> PNLTC
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| Yippy I finally got it! I have created a motorized switch track that ran 100 switches via RCX without tearing the housing apart or missing firing! After 100 I got tired of counting and I just stopped it, so it might go for several hundred. It sits (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics)
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