Matt, your Container Terminal looks great and i just hope mine looks as good as yours. One question for you, have you done a video on how you put metal strips or magnets in your containers. And a in depth video on your sound system that you added, if not are you going to do one? cheers Robert
Hi Robert, yes I did a short bit of video on how I put the metal adapters in the containers , will have to search through for which video and will post in reply. On the sound part that was very complex needing a double pole double switch , if I remember , arrangement that whilst the crane spotlight on the control pad it also ignites the sound file which I created and looped onto a sound system the clip only in this video. but it’s not very detailed as I didn’t want to pull all the kit back out after I got it working all nicely, if it ain’t broken don’t fix it , mess with it . If your controlling off a DCC controller then I think it probably possible to set cv settings of a sound decoder to the same as the left , right movements. Cheers Matt
th-cam.com/video/_r2asnt9zos/w-d-xo.html 1:55 onwards for the container adapters , probably other ways of doing it with a type of metal that is more conductive to the crane magnets but it holds just about if you get it all lined up with magnets to the top of the bolt faces.
@@SolarRailway Thanks and like your idea as well, i also have some spare Heljan containers that i also may take out the metal strips and put into others cheers Robert
@@SolarRailway Yes the sound seems to be a bit tricky and maybe i will just add the sound to the video when i finish doing the scene by down loading crane sounds, thanks again cheers Robert
To be honest mate ive got one on Penna Lane and there not that good, handy bit of kit but too complicated and not well built, theres not much to it really either and as such we have totally modified ours the original operating system has been replaced with a 6 pin dcc loco chip for drive function and light control and it works so much better now. You could easily make your own up.
Fantastic ,and the control easy to understand ,can this still be purchased and if so I presume its expensive ,but prob worth the money for the amount of playability .
Hi, thanks for the video. Any chance you could measure the distance between the crane rails? I'm thinking of getting one but all the info I found was the baseplate size, which I won't be using. Thanks!
The end of the depot would it not be a run round or is what you do standard practice. Can you run Crain hoist on DCC or has got to be its own controls. Could you auto set it so have sencors in the containers some how
Crane can operate on DCC controls but I prefer the ‘manual’ element of the push buttons on the control pad whilst I can use DCC controller to run the trains, thanks for watching
yes, the motor and associated cog teeth in the top hoist compartment has come loose, this is a really poorly designed part and gets worn quickly if been used heavily.
Dose the Crain allow you to operate off the railway on lorries and that. If so why not add faller DCC road and have that so lorries can come in get containers and move out.
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Matt, your Container Terminal looks great and i just hope mine looks as good as yours.
One question for you, have you done a video on how you put metal strips or magnets in your containers.
And a in depth video on your sound system that you added, if not are you going to do one? cheers Robert
Hi Robert, yes I did a short bit of video on how I put the metal adapters in the containers , will have to search through for which video and will post in reply. On the sound part that was very complex needing a double pole double switch , if I remember , arrangement that whilst the crane spotlight on the control pad it also ignites the sound file which I created and looped onto a sound system the clip only in this video. but it’s not very detailed as I didn’t want to pull all the kit back out after I got it working all nicely, if it ain’t broken don’t fix it , mess with it . If your controlling off a DCC controller then I think it probably possible to set cv settings of a sound decoder to the same as the left , right movements. Cheers Matt
th-cam.com/video/_r2asnt9zos/w-d-xo.html 1:55 onwards for the container adapters , probably other ways of doing it with a type of metal that is more conductive to the crane magnets but it holds just about if you get it all lined up with magnets to the top of the bolt faces.
@@SolarRailway Thanks and like your idea as well, i also have some spare Heljan containers that i also may take out the metal strips and put into others cheers Robert
@@SolarRailway Yes the sound seems to be a bit tricky and maybe i will just add the sound to the video when i finish
doing the scene by down loading crane sounds, thanks again cheers Robert
Looking good the more container the better
Agreed, thank you for watching Dave
Awesome 👍🏻 I see hours of fun with that Heljan container crane while the trains wiz by 😆
Yes indeed hoping to get some shots like that in future , cheers
Thats brilliant. You can sit and load up your container trains while the other trains are running around the layout. Looks like great fun cheers Andy
Hope so once I have the container depot fully set up
Great update Matt! Awesome crane. Thanks for sharing this video. Cheers Onno.
Thanks for the kind words Onno
Ha that's ace, hours of fun to be had!
I do hope so if it stays in good working order
Another great video. Love it!
Many thanks
You need a heljan traverser to go on the end of the container lines. Both excellent bits of kit
Yes that would have been excellent but couldn’t find one in time so instead it adds a nice operation to moving the locos about
To be honest mate ive got one on Penna Lane and there not that good, handy bit of kit but too complicated and not well built, theres not much to it really either and as such we have totally modified ours the original operating system has been replaced with a 6 pin dcc loco chip for drive function and light control and it works so much better now. You could easily make your own up.
Fantastic ,and the control easy to understand ,can this still be purchased and if so I presume its expensive ,but prob worth the money for the amount of playability .
Thanks for the kind words and unfortunately you can’t buy this product anymore as it is 13 or so years old
Super
Cheers
Thanks
Hi, thanks for the video. Any chance you could measure the distance between the crane rails? I'm thinking of getting one but all the info I found was the baseplate size, which I won't be using. Thanks!
Hi. Is the Soundmodul standard with the containerterminal or where did you buy that?
Hi Bin that's very special did it come motorised or did you make it do all of that. Colin
All comes motorised and ready out the box to play with
The end of the depot would it not be a run round or is what you do standard practice.
Can you run Crain hoist on DCC or has got to be its own controls. Could you auto set it so have sencors in the containers some how
Crane can operate on DCC controls but I prefer the ‘manual’ element of the push buttons on the control pad whilst I can use DCC controller to run the trains, thanks for watching
Hi, my hoist doesn’t go up or down but when the buttons are pressed, the motor still turns. Any ideas?
yes, the motor and associated cog teeth in the top hoist compartment has come loose, this is a really poorly designed part and gets worn quickly if been used heavily.
Dose the Crain allow you to operate off the railway on lorries and that. If so why not add faller DCC road and have that so lorries can come in get containers and move out.
Did look at a faller road system but unfortunately ran out of space to take the lorries off-scene
That's not DIY, is it?
The container crane itself was on general sale many many years ago
@@SolarRailway would be interesting to make that from Arduinos
750 eurs
@@MobileGifte oh boy, that's insane