*Impressive the most !!*. No question about that !. All of them perform so soft and in perfect synchronization ! I guess the movement is via a chain with magnets underneath the board, right ?. Either way, your work is outstanding !!. Congratulations and cheers, John from Chile.
jhonny1392 Thank you. The road is a linear motor, just a series of coils on a printed circuit board. It does work much like a conveyor belt, but the only moving parts are the vehicles themselves.
ModelRail Musings Oh, Yes !. I saw this system once here in YT. So, is no handmade, but a commercial one. I undestand there is a microprocessor that puts coils ON and OFF for the perfect and continuous movement of the cars. What I told you before was because there is another vid that shows this car system for Z scale. It's hand made and as I mention before, the cars has the same principle as yours but its movement is via a chain that goes under the lane activated through an electric motor and the chain has some magnets inserted. So, cars follows these magnets from the surface. Is a more inexpensive method to do the same as you show here. Thanks, and many greetins from Chile, John.
Amazingly outstanding! Incredible! Well done!
AWESOME, EXCELLENT and PERFECT!!!!! Thank you for sharing and keep up the good work.
*Impressive the most !!*. No question about that !.
All of them perform so soft and in perfect synchronization !
I guess the movement is via a chain with magnets underneath the board, right ?.
Either way, your work is outstanding !!.
Congratulations and cheers, John from Chile.
jhonny1392 Thank you. The road is a linear motor, just a series of coils on a printed circuit board. It does work much like a conveyor belt, but the only moving parts are the vehicles themselves.
ModelRail Musings Oh, Yes !. I saw this system once here in YT. So, is no handmade, but a commercial one. I undestand there is a microprocessor that puts coils ON and OFF for the perfect and continuous movement of the cars.
What I told you before was because there is another vid that shows this car system for Z scale. It's hand made and as I mention before, the cars has the same principle as yours but its movement is via a chain that goes under the lane activated through an electric motor and the chain has some magnets inserted. So, cars follows these magnets from the surface. Is a more inexpensive method to do the same as you show here.
Thanks, and many greetins from Chile, John.
Can the cars run slower?
Not on that layout, as the off-the-shelf controller just has one fixed speed. My later ones can go as slow as 1mm/sec (2km/h in 1:450 scale).