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Re: Has anyone motorized the monorail station tracks?
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Date: 
Sat, 27 Jan 2001 11:55:18 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Brad Hamilton writes:
> Hi,
> 
> I just aquired some monorail parts and I'm wondering about remotely
> controlling the station points.
> 
> It seems like you could mount a micro-motor to the station point to get it
> to remotely turn.
> 
> It seems like an even cooler idea would be to pair that with a rotation or
> touch sensor plus a mindstorms unit to automatically have the monorail
> start/stop at the station.
> 
> Has anyone done this?
> 
> Has anyone posted designs or pictures of something like this?
> 
> thanks

Ludo Soete has put together some designs of this at his web page:
http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Glade/5192/mono.htm

Motorize well,

Andreas Stabno
http://www.megsinet.net/~stabno/SimiLego.htm



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  Has anyone motorized the monorail station tracks?
 
Hi, I just aquired some monorail parts and I'm wondering about remotely controlling the station points. It seems like you could mount a micro-motor to the station point to get it to remotely turn. It seems like an even cooler idea would be to pair (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)

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