Sensors management with Rocrail
In this article I will address a key point to control our network via Rocrail or any other software. This is the feedback signal, or simply train detection on the network. Without it, impossible to know where are the trains, and therefore impossible to give them the right orders. You must place wisely sensors along the track. These sensors inform the detection of a train (some even allow to identify the train). In my case, I currently only sensors based …
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(Français) A présent, vous pouvez accéder à l’ensemble des photos prises lors de la réalisation de mon projet de modelisme.
Pour publier ces albums, j’utilise les plugins NextGEN : Gallerie, FlashViewer et Sidebar Widget. La traduction de ces plugins est en cours pour ceux que ça intéresse.
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Mikadotrain X73500
The rainy day was an opportunity for me to advance the work on my new railcar: A X73500 Burgundy region of Mikadotrain . The railcar is very well done. You can find more information on the website of the manufacturer. I started in a small challenge: to equip it with a sound decoder and change the railcar to add interior lighting. Leds are white leds classic colors I paint with stained glass “deep blue”. The leds are mounted in parallel …
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BlackBerry PlayBook & Linux
While most phones, tablets, cameras and other USB devices … act as a mass-storage device, RIM has opted for another solution to the tablet PlayBook. That’s why I post this article. Indeed, the PlayBook looks like a CD-ROM with drivers to install for Windows ! Once the driver for Windows installed, the PlayBook looks again. It is then available as a network drive. The PlayBook indeed behaves as a network interface. The data is then accessible via the network. If …
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BlackBerry PlayBook
BlackBerry PlayBook Introduction The BlackBerry package Wi-Fi settings File sharing setting Bridge setting Multimédia – Video format BlackBerry PlayBook Introduction The multimedia pads are starting to bloom in stores. My choice is made, and I turned to the pad of the Canadian RIM : The “BlackBerry PlayBook.” Several reasons for this : the price drop ! I have a BlackBerry (function proposed by the manufacturer Bridge is very convenient). the PlayBook is one of the best tablets on the technical, …
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Turnouts adding on Rocrail
Now we know to control our locomotive from Rocrail, we’ll see how to declare the turnout. This is little more complicated. First, they must be defined on the central Our “curve” turnout has the address 998 (250 group – position 2), our “dual junction” turnout has the address 999 and 1000 (group 250 – Position 3 & 4). To recall, there may be 2048 accessories, or 512 groups (512 x 4 = 2048). There is very little information to provide …
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Locomotives adding on Rocrail
After discovering Rocrail and saw its installation, we will immediately see how to declare a new locomotive. Once this is done, we will not be very far from what our ecos center can do ! First, you have to set the locomotive on your Ecos. From the menu “Object”, which contains a list of all network elements that we can declare we select “Locomotives.” A window with several tabs will open and we will inform each of these tabs to …
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Rocrail & Rocview configuration
For those who have followed the previous articles, you must have read that I want to do a digital network to be able to control it via a computer, a phone or a tablet. The interest is to have an interface as user friendly as possible and especially to overcome the limitations of a central (in my case to the ecos ESU). Eventually, my network must be fully automated or not. Either the computer controls the trains following a schedule …
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Work, wiring, landscape and tests
Some news about my layout. I have worked on several subjects. Ballast tests : Tortoise motor and turnouts wiring. The second curve is ready, I have still to set the Peco’s bretelle double, and the track 3 and 4. I have worked on the platform ; some passengers wait the train (the time can be long !).
Platforms building
When you fix the platforms, you have to think to the position and the size of platforms. I have quickly defined the platforms that I want to use. Here you can find the normes (height, size, position, space…) – in alignement – in curve Now we can start the build… After a few time ; the first results :
![[:fr]Modélisme - Autorail X73500[:en]Layout - Autorail X73500](http://www.progweb.com/wp-content/gallery/modelisme/x73500/thumbs/thumbs_IMG_0213.JPG)
![[:fr]Modélisme - Menuiserie[:en]Layout - Woodworks](http://www.progweb.com/wp-content/gallery/modelisme/menuiserie/thumbs/thumbs_IMG_0181.JPG)
![[:fr]Modélisme - BR429[:en]Layout - BR429](http://www.progweb.com/wp-content/gallery/modelisme/br429/thumbs/thumbs_IMG_0419.JPG)
![[:fr]Modélisme - Travaux[:en]Layout - Works decor](http://www.progweb.com/wp-content/gallery/modelisme/travaux/thumbs/thumbs_IMG_0201.jpg)
