Install a track speedometer | December 2020 WHATS NEAT Model Railroad Hobbyist

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  • @alexandersalomon8257
    @alexandersalomon8257 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I have learned so much from your shows. Love your dedication to the hobby.

  • @kd5gsp
    @kd5gsp 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    WOW!!! The new ballast application demonstration was GREAT!!! Deluxe Materials can take my money NOW!!! I'm excited to use it make realistic coal and aggregate loads.

  • @bcardicoke
    @bcardicoke 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Ken, I really enjoyed this video. Your instructions were step by step and easy to follow. Great looking addition!

  • @richarddrum9970
    @richarddrum9970 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video Ken, very informative and classy installation techniques. I recall years ago that there were a series of articles in Model Railroader Mag. about determining train speed using a measured track distance and scale time to estimate train speeds but this gadget you installed is way easier. Thanks.

  • @Modelersguild
    @Modelersguild 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks Ken, you are re-inspiring me to find my hobby again. I'm drawing plans to build a steel mill where I work. I have a bunch of footage of both a BoF (basic oxygen furnace) and an EAF (Electric Arc Furnace) both I work directly in front of performing laser readings to apply my companies Aluminum embedded shotcrete to maintain it's perimeter. It's quite fun and very dangerous, perfect for a nutbar like me 🙃

  • @DavidHughesPiano
    @DavidHughesPiano 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice clean installation of the speedometer, Ken. Well done. Wouldn't it be nice if TCS included a fascia panel-mount plate? Most users are going to want to install this device in their fascia. You had to jump through a fair amount of hoops to make this happen. TCS should provide a decorative face plate bezel to cover an oversize hole (drilled by the layout owner) to make this neat, tidy, quick, and easy. Also, for a few bucks more they could provide a wall wart power supply and necessary connectors that you had to rummage for. Just my two cents.
    BTW, did the laundry dry okay? ;-)

  • @raykloetstra8501
    @raykloetstra8501 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great show. Thanks for all the how-to's. They show tips and tools that are applicable to so many projects. Happy Saint Nicholas Day! Loved your trains around the Christmas tree!!!

  • @8ballphilc
    @8ballphilc 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    That Blackstone HOn3 shot in the snow is awesome! Good content as always!

  • @jackoesterlejr.3454
    @jackoesterlejr.3454 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a show! First of all i just love the steam engines under the Christmas Tree! I love the new products Ken showed us! The T.C.S. Speedometer is really neat & very accurate! This would be a great conversation piece added to your layout! I like how Ken added his special feature to turn the power off & on. That is neat! The ballast kit from..Deluxe Materials is error free & easy to do! I need to go to...Mark Twain Hobby in St. Charles,Mo. This is "The Best Hobby In The World" Till Next Time! MoPac Jack Happy Holidays To Everyone, The Staff@ Model Railroad Hobbyist,The Viewers & Commenters! "Model Railroading Is Fun" Please Be Safe...Always!

  • @georgethomas7814
    @georgethomas7814 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Best looking modelling I have seen..... easy how to. Thank You.

  • @mistermeanial1690
    @mistermeanial1690 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mr. Patterson, I FINALLY have a place to start a model railroad. I had one when I was a teenager, but I have now been without a layout, longer than with one. I have decided to go HO scale and have been working on the track plan as I have time.
    What, in your opinion, is the next “most important thing to decide” item I should be focusing on? Not looking for hand holding, but I know a lot has changed since I did this last.

  • @earlfreeman93
    @earlfreeman93 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video; you said in the video that the speedometer could be set up for measuring speed in kilometers; but you didn't show us how to do that. Do we set the sensors up at 1/100 of an H0 scale kilometer (about 114.8mm or 4.52 inches) or how do we do this. Because some of us like to model railroads from other parts of the world where kilometers are used.

  • @ColumbusGardenRailwaySociety
    @ColumbusGardenRailwaySociety 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Another great video Ken! Thanks.

  • @BaronvonBavert
    @BaronvonBavert 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wish you a Merry Christmas, greetings from Solingen/Germany

  • @InterCity134
    @InterCity134 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cool. I’d have placed a thin red plexiglass rectangle over the 7 segment displays (so offset the electronics further into the foam) to get an easier to read display as it hides the non illuminated parts of the display.
    . Seems to me the speed trap design made it needlessly hard. Better would be to have the modeler install the IR sensors where they can , measure that distance precisely ( and here is where mm would be so much better than inches ) and the program that precise value into the module to tell it how far and the model then does the calculation based on that distance.
    Requiring the modeler to physically place something super precise is a bad approach.

  • @goldenretriever6440
    @goldenretriever6440 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Only thing we need now is a railway patrol officer to give you a speeding ticket

  • @robertkittredge823
    @robertkittredge823 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ken, great video. However , I’m concerned that you apparently didn’t test out all circuit connections BEFORE you sealed them in the foam. If you DID ,I think you should have said so. IF you DIDN’T , we’ll that’s a big no no in my book. Been there , done that and paid the price 😬.

  • @dckmusic
    @dckmusic 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I found the Ballast Magic didn't work all that great with my Kato Unitrack ballast and left a somewhat sticky residue on some things. But I'll give it a try on some Super Trees.

  • @drewingram3347
    @drewingram3347 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks, Ken! Great vid as always! Do you have a specific article or vid you can direct us to for the installation of the plugs you use to connect the power to your modules?

  • @wixom01
    @wixom01 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The math for the speedometer sensors is off. The NMRA defines HO scale as 1:87.0857142. So a hundredth of a mile in HO scale would be 5280/87.0857142 x 12/100 = 7.276 (rounded to the nearest 1 thousandth). I have no idea how the manufacturer got 7.283. But since your only off by about a tenth of a percent, it shouldn't matter.

  • @richardsweat6734
    @richardsweat6734 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like your videos, I get some good ideas, but I model in large scale. So I have a question problem. Since HO is, about 1/4 the size of large scale, do you think that if I take the HO distance of the sensors and multiply it times 4 it will give me a relatively close estimate of the speed of my trains.

  • @rjl110919581
    @rjl110919581 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    thank you for one other great detail video by share other love railroad people

  • @samueldenehytheoriginalhal6022
    @samueldenehytheoriginalhal6022 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great episode Ken.

  • @brucereed8591
    @brucereed8591 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you, very interesting, neat little device.

  • @pras12100
    @pras12100 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    < Pedant Alert! >
    What exact scale is your railroad because I have heard that, in the US, you use 1:87.1 for HO scale whereas, in Europe, we use 1:87.0?
    In 1:87.0 scale 1/100th of a mile is 7.283 inches but in 1:87.1 scale it is 7.274 inches.
    < End Pedant Alert >

  • @michaell.maloney4026
    @michaell.maloney4026 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just out of curiosity, I see you have two pairs of glasses when you were cleaning out the bottom foam for the sensors. I’m guessing the red pair are magnifying? Nice techniques!

  • @stephenrick6672
    @stephenrick6672 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great how to. Appreciate the detail.

  • @motokid7770
    @motokid7770 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    For what I do to measure speed is set my throttle a bit under half speed and time how long it takes to do one loop I then measure the track it cover so let’s say 40 second 20 feet and so you do 20 times 160 (n scale or 87 for ho etc) then I get 3200 feet and with that divide 40 by 3200 and you get 80 mph in scale speed

  • @bobmartin3018
    @bobmartin3018 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What coal did you use?

  • @kmagnussen1052
    @kmagnussen1052 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Am I the only one that wanted him to put the hopper on the track?

  • @farmerdave7965
    @farmerdave7965 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You're getting your money's worth out of that hot wire foam cutter.

  • @Casenundra
    @Casenundra 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I do hope that you actually tested the module before you sealed up the wiring.

  • @jpbassseniorbasssenior323
    @jpbassseniorbasssenior323 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ken do a live chat with the crew ❤️😁

  • @SouthBrooklynRR
    @SouthBrooklynRR 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Question? What is a Radio Shack?

    • @gavinwilliamson681
      @gavinwilliamson681 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      An Electronics retail outlet (shop) in America. For those of us old enough to remember, we used to have Tandy stores in Australia, that (I think) were connected to Radio Shack.

  • @SevenWelt
    @SevenWelt 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great the video👍

  • @cprtrain
    @cprtrain 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Super video.

  • @allenbarnes7202
    @allenbarnes7202 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This will work on a dc layout right, the speedometer

    • @DCoombs928
      @DCoombs928 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Of course! Its a seperate component that uses the IR sensors to detect scale MPH speeds.

  • @wamozart9573
    @wamozart9573 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    High Five, Ken!!!

  • @Joe-td4pq
    @Joe-td4pq 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    What type of weathering was used on the hopper car and was it sealed with anything?

  • @gdanyluk8374
    @gdanyluk8374 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    7.283" = 7 9/32" or 185 mm

  • @philiphickman5085
    @philiphickman5085 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Silicone is conductive, go with double sided tape.

    • @MRhobbyist
      @MRhobbyist  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Normal silicone rubber is an electrical and thermal insulator. However, it can be made in conductive forms. As long as the silicone is the normal form it’s perfectly fine. Look it up.

  • @fwrw
    @fwrw 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice work, but honestly, please use metric measurements. Everything else is just ridiculous.

  • @kevinjhonson5925
    @kevinjhonson5925 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wot first

  • @fiouable
    @fiouable 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sorry but you scare my children with two pairs of glasses. Get a haircut and wear lighter colour glasses. You look like a mad scientist. Don’t worry, we still love you.

    • @MRhobbyist
      @MRhobbyist  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      We know you're being cute, but seriously, there's a pandemic on, remember. It can be hard to get to a barbershop when they're all closed cuz cases are spiking. We're not priviledged like some of those in power who get one anyway even though the lockdown orders say not to. Oh well, nice to be a little guy, we guess ...

    • @fiouable
      @fiouable 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MRhobbyist and people voted that crazy man who thinks the virus doesn’t exists.