This month has again seen a very significant proportion of my time taken up with family matters. Some hobby time was found and I worked on: Car Card Racks, Track Maintenance, A Fun Run, Ops Sessions, WiFi Fast Clock Master and High Capacity CD Units.
Car Card Racks
I finally put the racks up albeit not painted or every mounting screw but they could be used for the ops session on the 7th.
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| Jimtown |
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| Hornertown |
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| Loco LeMaistre |
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| Stanvac / Flintston / Iron Hill |
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| Adamsville |
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| Daveyston |
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| Huntington |
Troublesome Track
Last month I relaid this section of track so I installed the feeders and hooked up this month but did not realise I had crossed some wires. This meant that the PSX feeding the section did its job and turned off the power. This was discovered when we ran the first train on the Fun Run day, I could not fix it on the fly despite "chopping some wires", so that caused a few issues...
Fun Run 2nd July
I had a request to include some "fun run" sessions so people could run some of their equipment on the layout. Barry, Chris, Des, Don, Rosslyn and Wayne brought equipment. Below are some pictures of the "foreign visitors"
Apart from the "Troublesome Track" we had a nice time.
I was asked by Spacky & Jock (the 12" to the foot guys from Pt Augusta Loco Workshops) if I was prepared to schedule a couple of op sessions on a weekend so they could make the 3½ hour drive south and take part. This was the first such session.
Below is the Trains sorted by Operator by Time
Below is Trains sorted by Time by Operator
I followed Wayne's lead of providing a switch list for each yard and local goods
Afterwards Spacky & Jock cooked a great BBQ which was devoured accompanied by beer and red wine. We had such a great night they boys hung around until midnight chatting.
I finally spent a few hours working on the base station for the Wi-Fi Clocks.
The 32 x 8 LED is the time display, the LCD monitors the Wi-Fi status of the four slaves and the push buttons are for the functions of Start/Pause, Time +, Time -, LED display brightness, Clock Speed and Reset.
The final commissioning and testing awaits...
I built another 7 CD Units for Rosslyn making a total of 8 units. 3 were previously delivered and the last 5 are shown below.
I turned up shakedown session at Rosslyn's and installed the first three High Capacity CD Units and they worked all but the two sets of twin Tenshodo solenoids that work in tandem. So I have decided to build a Mega CD Unit for use of these two sets only.
I was really tired with all the family stuff happening so I retired after reinstating the old wiring for the second time...
I took one home and doubled the capacity to 4 x 4700µf 50V caps.
I have given them to Rosslyn for installation..
I was lucky enough to get to two sessions at Wayne's this month.
Alan, Des, Don, Wayne and I had a great afternoon and the complete schedule was run with only a few errors.
Barry, Chris, Des, Don, Peter J, Rosslyn, Wayne and I ran the schedule.
It was great to have a few hours away from the Family issues Kaye and I am currently experiencing.
I am looking forward to getting back to a position that is somewhat normal - hopefully this will occur towards the end of August. Let's see where it all goes in the next few weeks....
Ops Session Saturday 7th
I was asked by Spacky & Jock (the 12" to the foot guys from Pt Augusta Loco Workshops) if I was prepared to schedule a couple of op sessions on a weekend so they could make the 3½ hour drive south and take part. This was the first such session.
Below is Trains sorted by Time by Operator
I followed Wayne's lead of providing a switch list for each yard and local goods
Afterwards Spacky & Jock cooked a great BBQ which was devoured accompanied by beer and red wine. We had such a great night they boys hung around until midnight chatting.
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| Me & Jock |
The next session will be October 27th.
WiFi Fast Clock Master
I finally spent a few hours working on the base station for the Wi-Fi Clocks.
The 32 x 8 LED is the time display, the LCD monitors the Wi-Fi status of the four slaves and the push buttons are for the functions of Start/Pause, Time +, Time -, LED display brightness, Clock Speed and Reset.
The final commissioning and testing awaits...
High Capacity CD Units
I built another 7 CD Units for Rosslyn making a total of 8 units. 3 were previously delivered and the last 5 are shown below.
Ops Session at Rosslyn's
I turned up shakedown session at Rosslyn's and installed the first three High Capacity CD Units and they worked all but the two sets of twin Tenshodo solenoids that work in tandem. So I have decided to build a Mega CD Unit for use of these two sets only.
I was really tired with all the family stuff happening so I retired after reinstating the old wiring for the second time...
I took one home and doubled the capacity to 4 x 4700µf 50V caps.
I have given them to Rosslyn for installation..
Ops Session at Wayne's
I was lucky enough to get to two sessions at Wayne's this month.
Wednesday 11th
Alan, Des, Don, Wayne and I had a great afternoon and the complete schedule was run with only a few errors.
Thursday 26th
Forgot the photos... I worked with Peter J and we had a pleasant afternoon's run albeit busy at the start.Barry, Chris, Des, Don, Peter J, Rosslyn, Wayne and I ran the schedule.
It was great to have a few hours away from the Family issues Kaye and I am currently experiencing.
In conclusion
I am looking forward to getting back to a position that is somewhat normal - hopefully this will occur towards the end of August. Let's see where it all goes in the next few weeks....
Till the end of August.....
-ooOOOoo-
