- January 2
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We have purchased a new power supply especially for under-layout lighting. With 8 Amps output capacity! (A single
string of 8 LEDs draws 320mA.)
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Berkmannville lit with the new power supply. Note that it looks entirely different from the previous views.
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Block Card 20 is now more neatly wired. An overload on the +15V circuit breaker serving the helix
area suggested that it was time for a new cable to the breaker panel. This was accordingly done,
with matching cables for the 8V and 18V supplies also.
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New electrical connectors for upper level track power!
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- January 12
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100 each of two sizes of T-nuts for construction of the upper levels. Using these allows us to join
sections of plywood with bolts from below.
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At long last, Section 14 of the helix is pretty much done! With the servos in place to operate turnouts,
a microcontroller to drive them, 5 relays, track power and d.c. power supplies brought in through
connectors, and rails attached to adjacent sections.
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This train came up from Staging under its own power!
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Bill Onorato and John P reworked the plywood under part of the paper mill area, and added a new
support beam, using some of the new hardware.
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- January 16
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This is what Abe-use looks like. Found in the CokeR machine.
If anyone confesses to this they won't get the money back even if they ask.
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Switch 196 is now operational, with frog power controlled via a microswitch.
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A lengthy search for a short circuit in track power ended here. Soldering a wire to a rail
just where another wire passes underneath apparently leads to unsatisfactory outcomes.
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- January 30
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Andy prepared to install some human figures on the platform at Killianport. These were painted
at the West Coast Shops and have been waiting for a home for many months.
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Andy also (mostly) finished his station at Killianport, having now obtained the necessary corbels.
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Here is the painted stairway and overpass.
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John P installed the first rail of the first movable frog diamond on the Helix Section 14.
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Pico people populate the platform.
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Some of them taking each other's pictures--not the best location, maybe? But she appears to be walking
on air.
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