... Neat. People always ask me how tough it is to use this stuff and I respond that I can talk easily to anything from a computer to a flatiron. Which of ...
Hi, Is going to other applications so strange? If you read Dr. Chubb's first books, he didn't start out with a railroad in mind. As I recall, he started ...
... Heck, no. If I had the money for it, I'd also play with making a CNC mill out of my router (yes, I know you can buy one already). It's just fun stuff to...
Hi Need some advice here. I think I know the answer but would appreciate any input. I am modelling the South Shore. Part of the trackage (Randolph St in...
Jay The way the local control for the turnouts is wired using a DPDT toggle and the SMC12 card, it is easy to add the computer control without changing the...
Don Thanks for the good advice...and the grin grin is OK with me...just have to build the cards I already got from you...lol... And why do you think I add ...
Jay, I'm not sure what you are asking. Are you asking, "Should I ever install CTC for the South Shore?"? One answer is "No, in the 1970's the real South...
Group: As I was posting a KISS explination of "pulse transformer" based detection over in NCE land and I said as long as track power is on... And I went oooh! ...
Hi Jay. Just thought I'd add that an awful lot of modelers have "switched eras" long after their railroads were built. It could happen to you. I'd add any...
I agree with Clark Thorpe that unless you are following the prototype exactly, then adding features which will allow more trains to operate in your session and...
PS yes I understand that the type and position of signals for ABS and CTC are different. Jay could explain that the South Shore management is in the process of...
Hi Barry, Clark, and Don. Thanks for the advice as usual. My dear wife keeps reminding me it is My Railroad so I need to listen to her. Prototype fidelity is...
Jay The throttle cards are DC and you are using DCC. Bruce has two chapters on automation of trains in the up and coming Handbook. It explains how to talk to...
Jim, What are your thoughts on connection strategy for this? Just this morning I was looking at what to do to detect both track power status and power district...
Don, Does Bruce also explain any automated train system techniques for DC also. Both Mikes layout and maybe my layout may incorporate this for our DC
layouts...
Dave Yes Using the CCT4 card allows you to have a computer controlled throttle. Speed and direction are controlled so you can have automated running. Details...
... <Easeeinterface@...> ... throttle. Speed and direction are controlled so you can have automated running. Details would be similar to the DCC operation as...
I would like to field a basic question: In MS Basic or Quick Basic on a PC, if you want to tell the PC to use a serial device connected to COM Port 1 you code...
<SNIP> ... <SNIP> Jim, Not sure if this is what you are asking about, hopefully it is. If you are wanting to keep track of "track power" or monitoring which ...
Alan, and group: I'm trying to think through the coding implications of a power district tripping which would look like a block going clear to adjacent blocks...
I like the suggestion of extending the block detector software representation. In the "unpack" code where you set the BlockOccupied array, instead of ...
"Now that brings up some questions. I am not using the CMRI throttle cards but am using NCE DCC. I have experimented with DecoderPro via the serial port on the...
Thorn, I would be interested if you can find your documentation on CCT4
modifications that you and Bruce did or maybe post it up in the CMRI files
section....
Too all who asked: The name of the company advertised in Model RRer Dec./2006 page 115 who sells the 8 position edge card connector for Tortise Switch Machine...
Just a thought but, I have some sidings with power off switches that power off the track but actually switch to a resistor so the track appears occupied. You...
Sorry for asking stupid things but: What is the use of two FF syncronizing bytes in C/MRI datagram (SMINI)? I understood that the PIC syncronizes to each bytes...
Dale Thanks for the information on the connectors To delete a large amount of email at one time highlight the first one to delete, scroll down to the last one....
Dale, To add to Dons solution to deleting allot or all of messages, some mailers
have a "select all" feature in the pop down menus of the program. So once
you...
Ooops, sorry if I misspelled your first name, should have been Thom. Dave Thayer ... From: CMRI_Users@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, February 04, 2007 9:33:14...
