Hi. I was perusing Dr. Chubb's "User Manual" (vers 3.0) and am trying to determine if "Local Crew Activated Dual Control Switchmotors" (page 3-17) can be used...
Hi Barry Of course you can have the fail safe until you got the pushbutton matrix installed and working. It means dual wiring but here is what to do Use the...
Hi. In planning a c/mri system using sminis - Do the nodes have to be brought on line in numerical sequence? For example in the master plan (??) I might bring...
Hi Barry, I can answer this one as I had the same question for Don Wood about six months ago. No, it does not make any difference. I brought mine on line out...
Barry, Tom, The way you bring them online might not matter but there was a discussion on the JMRI group about slowing down the program if the Sminis with...
Barry/Tom: Nick is 100% correct... It will work, but will slow down the program if it is looking for the "missing node" as it will get a "maxtries" error ...
Dear Group: I've just been informed today from the registrar of the Grand Rapids NCR convention that the announcement of the special "Early-Bird" operating...
Hi all I know that we have the SM2 that can control one twin coil switch machine with one output line for a SMINI or other board. I have the need to control 5...
Sorry guys, forgot to delete the rest of the old post...... James F. "Jay" Beckham, Travel Consultant Cruises On The Sea 2799 Highland Ridge Road Berkeley...
Jim You stated Just in case there are others out there who'd rather use a Mac, yes, it can be done. It's not actually hooked-up to my railroad yet (details,...
Good question. I am not familiar with your adapter. I am using JMRI on a mac with os-X 10.4.5. Am using crmi to the rr for all except throttles and am using...
I am attempting to get the CMRI Visual Basic code running on a machine using VBExpress. I have downloaded and installed XMComm, but the instructions in the...
Friends, I have seen advertisements for the PTC (New York Systems) turntable controller / indexer. It has a C/MRI adapter as well but I was curious if anyone...
Nick: I've built a TT drive using a salvaged HP scanner stepper with a chain drive to give me 3600 steps full circle. I built my own controller using a...
Nick, you're not the only one that needs help on this.... ... From: "Nick Kulp" <cornwall9@...> To: <CMRI_Users@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, March...
Nick/all: I have a PTC Mark III and I'm very happy with it... My only critcism is when 1 stall is out of alignment, you must reprogram both ends of every ...
At 05:49 PM 3/4/2006, Nick Kulp wrote: SNIP->I would like to use a stepper motor to perform this function. If anyone has done this, I'd appreciate any info on...
For you Apple users, I finally got around to hooking-up my iMac to my railroad, and it is running the signalling system just fine. I only have one SMINI so...
... The PTC turntable uses a strong stepper motor. It just counts steps to get from one position to the next, with no other hardware involved. So long as...
Hello I played around with a stepper-motor mechanism for 6 months and spent about $700.00 on the project before I gave up and purchased a turntable drive from...
According to the Mac System Profiler, all the USB busses on both my iMac G3 and iMac G5 have 500 ma Bus Power. The C/MRI User's Manual on page 4-1 says "......
Hey Guys, I've always had quite a few questions in regards to the symbols and layout of interlocking plants on my CTC machines track diagram. I've been working...
... <SNIP> ... <SNIP> As I have not tried VB Express, I can't know for sure what it is trying to do by displaying these statements but I would ignore these ...
Hi Jim I was just curious and thought I would ask those that maybe would know if the USB had limitations on fan out capability. Also I not sure if I read...
Don, I also am not familiar with the USB adapter you mentioned. I have 5 SMINI's (supplied by you) hooked up to my Macintosh G3, running MacOS X 10.4.x, and...
... We have successfully tied the PCT3 controller with CMRI. It was not easy, however, because of timing problems. The CMRI runs at computer speed, the PCT3...
... limitations on fan out capability. ... are connected to the USB connector exactly the same way. IE the OUT lines DO NOT become the IN lines on the second...
Digi Key used to let you look at the spec sheets but last time I tried, they were no longer available. I do know I checked out different sources for the chips...
