🚃Video #837🚃 Four MTH O-Ga. Brill Trolleys Operate Automatically on Point to Point Shuttle Track

Wow, very informative videos.  Setting up the time delays for stopping looks like it may have been a challenge.  It looks like a fun display.

Thanks for sharing.

@James Ingram  James ... I am really Google Drive Challenged. I am planning to do a point to point with a Western Hobbycraft Trolley and perhaps a K-Line interurban.  I presume you installed DCC on these trolleys (if they were not there)  You used an NCE MiniPanel to control a path.  Any other things needed? I am clueless at present regarding DCC.

@boomer0622 posted:

Wow, very informative videos.  Setting up the time delays for stopping looks like it may have been a challenge.  It looks like a fun display.

Thanks for sharing.

* Time delays are fairly easy to set up -- just use a "Delay" statement (for example, "Delay 20" gives you 5 seconds delay, if you use the 1/4 second interval).
* The AMOUNT of the delay is a trial-and-error process.
* For a good "first estimate", you can run the streetcar manually at the desired speed, and measure the time with your iPhone's stopwatch.

@ScoutingDad posted:

@James Ingram  James ... I am really Google Drive Challenged. I am planning to do a point to point with a Western Hobbycraft Trolley and perhaps a K-Line interurban.  I presume you installed DCC on these trolleys (if they were not there)  You used an NCE MiniPanel to control a path.  Any other things needed? I am clueless at present regarding DCC.

* Hopefully you can VIEW the info in the Google Drive album ?? Just clicking that link, SHOULD open it for you.
* DCC Operation:  All MTH Proto-3 locos & streetcars will run on DCC. The Premier's have the DCC/DCS switch; for the Railking, you just need to either install a switch or cut a wire inside (discussed in Part 2 at the 13:43 point

( youtu.be/F-CvdhPqqkI&t=823 ).
* Note I also attempted to make a "Getting Started" series, that begins here:   vimeo.com/793946078

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* In the earlier year 2021 Video 833
ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/topic/chuggington-central-rr-o-ga-2-day-public-display-5-x-8-1-man-operated ,
we used the Mini-Panel to control 2 ANALOG (non-DCC) Chuggington locos -- by having the Mini-Panel operate the turnouts, and control relays to turn 2 blocks on and off.

* But I found that seems to be a more CUMBERSOME method.
You could probably do that relay-type-control more efficiently with an Arduino than an NCE Mini-Panel, but I don't know how to use the Arduino .
* I suggest you contact me sometime -- if you can find TIME, and I can try to answer any questions you have on the phone (contact info at jamesingramnet.wordpress.com/contact-james-robert-ingram   ).  That's assuming my hearing aids are working properly that day .

@James Ingram  James, thanks for the info. I was able to open all the Google Drive docs and PDFs.  I was a matter of what is relevant to what I want to do.  Does your email start with the "whois.." - does not quite look like an email address. I'll send a private message.

I am in the middle of building a new layout which is taking more time than I anticipated. At some point I am going to add a 2 rail trolley line down the middle of the town street. Whether this will be traditional 2 rail operation or powered from an overhead catenary, I have not decided as yet. But I suspect I can keep my costs down by leaving the trucks 3R and using  their poles. Both trolleys have reversing units but that is it. I am considering installing the new Blunami board to run these off Bluetooth and/or DCC.  I would want the trolleys to start and stop at different locations similar to how the MTH streetcars can be programmed.  Jeff