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Re: Building "Clearwater Industries" - Tyson Rayles - 11-27-2016 Great to see you are back at it! - clearwater - 11-28-2016 Hi all thank you for welcomming be back so kindly! Best regards! Thomas Re: Building "Clearwater Industries" - clearwater - 11-28-2016 railbuilderdhd Wrote:Hi Thomas Hi Dave I use Microchip PIC 16F630 to control my turnouts. I programmed a slowly rising PWM (pulse width modulation) from 0.5 micro seconds to 1.5 micro seconds within 2.5 seconds by 64 steps. That is slow enough but not too slow and nice to watch when the rails bend like the prototype does (way back it is falling from 1.5 downto 0.5 ms). My turnout Controllers do not work with dcc - only a small pushbutton in the Signal box tells them to turn to the other side. Regards Thomas Re: Building "Clearwater Industries" - railbuilderdhd - 11-28-2016 Thomas, I would be interested in more details of what you did if you have time and wouldn't mind helping someone that's a little slow when it comes to first time electronic stuff. I do know some basic programming and electronics so I'm not at a total loss but I do know I have a lot to learn. These boards you use, can they be programmed with the Arduino board or is there some other way that you need to program these boards/chips? Dave Re: Building "Clearwater Industries" - clearwater - 11-29-2016 Hi Dave I do program the controller in Assembler - that is not "rocket science" but you have to have a deeper understanding of it because you are closest as possible to the hardware - that is something I can not teach you. Microchip Controllers are differnt from Arduinos which have Atmel Controllers on board. But don´t hesitate to program an Arduino. Lot´s of libraries and the development System are free and you have just to lerarn how to use them. They can solve Jobs like the Microchip Controller as well. As you write you seem to have some experience in programming them. The Arduino homepage itself has many examples to learn the language "C" and offers lots of "how to´s" <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/HomePage">https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/HomePage</a><!-- m --> There you´ll find examples for PWM as well: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://www.arduino.cc/en/Reference/Servo">https://www.arduino.cc/en/Reference/Servo</a><!-- m --> now you have just to start ... ![]() Regards Thomas Re: Building "Clearwater Industries" - railbuilderdhd - 11-29-2016 Thank you Thomas. You are correct the only thing left now is starting. I may be asking more later as I get into this servo controlling. Have you done other fun projects with the microcontollers? I would love to know what else your doing. Also did you learn assembler for this or do you have more experience with programming/electronics. Dave Re: Building "Clearwater Industries" - clearwater - 11-29-2016 railbuilderdhd Wrote:Thank you Thomas. You are correct the only thing left now is starting. Sure! for example this here - an "Alabama state trooper" car in 1/87 scale that I pimped for my friend Hardy: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://freeslotter.de/index.php?page=Thread&postID=793462">http://freeslotter.de/index.php?page=Th ... tID=793462</a><!-- m --> or the turnouts for my 1/32 racetrack in wood: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://freeslotter.de/index.php?page=Thread&postID=882938#post882938">http://freeslotter.de/index.php?page=Th ... post882938</a><!-- m --> I do have to admit that Hardy supported me - he created the layout for the circuit boards. Quote:I would love to know what else your doing. I learned Motorola M68000 Assembler and IBM3090 assembler about 30 years ago. About 10 years ago I became more interested in how electronics work. Since about 5 years I learn and use PIC assembler, supportet by Hardy who is an electronic engineer. So: yes I learned it to program my tools for model railroading, slot racing, rc airplane flying and whatever I do in my spare time. Regards Thomas - clearwater - 12-04-2016 I think I should speed up a little bit. Good is - during the last years Clearwater Industries became a prospering part of the city. Bad is - I checked my pictures - I have only a few that document the development. So here is a small choice of pictures I took during our FREMO-meeting in November 2015. Martin operating Clearwater Industries with a local freight train. from left to right we do have the following customers: Highland Tractors: John Deere dealer Sentry Industries: Chemicals Trujillo: Food Pier 69: fresh fish, shells and lobster (directly oppisite to Trujillo) Lindworm Tyres: Good Year Dealer Overhauling: Car repair and tuning Ely Plastics: plastic furnitures for the garden Di Salvo: Italian quality furnitures behind his right hand: Alegria Grain mill: flours OCP (Ordinary Concrete Products) : Concrete tubes All togehter Clearwater Industries is capable to handle/receive maximum 18 freight cars per session! But that means it becomes really tight - so I normally order about 10 cars to have a little variety. OCP left, Alegria Grain mill right My friends call this part of clearwater Industries "the shark fin" because it looks alike from the top ![]() Highland Tractors, then Sentry Industries Regards Thomas - clearwater - 12-09-2016 Last meeting we decided to run our next session in about 1950 transition era which means we are in a time when steam and early diesel locomotives were pulling our trains. For me it meant that I do have to substitute some buildings by older ones. I was just happy to (almost) finish "Di Salvo" italian furnitures .... Re: Building "Clearwater Industries" - Tyson Rayles - 12-10-2016 ![]() ![]() ![]() Re: Building "Clearwater Industries" - clearwater - 12-12-2016 Thank you Mike, you´re welcome! Now the challenge has started. I gave myself the task to put Clearwater from about the year 2000 back in time for let´s say about 50 years into the 1950s for that what we call 'transition era' where we will ride steamers and early diesels. How that? Exchange local customers and their buildings by something which might have had been there 50 years ago. First (while I think easiest example) is to let 'Highland Tractors" disappear from the scene. The building is to be substituted by a bush and a heap of gravel or coal, the ramp will still stay and become a team track: Old cars and trucks will help to create the imagination of a time shift. Regards Thomas Re: - Schraddel - 12-19-2016 clearwater Wrote:... Hello Thomas, if you like ans interested, i have some pictures of Clearwater Industries taken in Mutschelbach 2014 and 2015. Cheers Lutz Re: Building "Clearwater Industries" - shortliner - 12-19-2016 Lutz - please post them for others far away Best Jack Re: Re: - clearwater - 12-22-2016 Schraddel Wrote:Hello Thomas, Hi Lutz thank you for your kindly offer - let us get in contact directly! Regards Thomas Re: Building "Clearwater Industries" - clearwater - 12-22-2016 As you might remember - there are 3 industries at that one module on the left of Clearwater industries. From left to right: Di Salvo - finest Itaian muebles Ely plastics - garden furniture from plastic Overhauling - car repair and "pimping" for our Steam and early diesel session I decided that there has to be "Fury´s Slaughter House": from left to right: Cold storage Slaughter house stable for fresh animals the "how to build" I will show you during the next days ... Merry Christmas every body! Regards Thomas |