Henner,
Is your Klimax a D.J.B. "A" type with the Gale steam engine. and if it
is how pleased are you with it. I have a home made "boat boiler" "A"
and have started work on a vertical boiled engine Boiler and engine
are finished burner will be Cheddar with pressure regulator but trucks
drive train
his open
house during the NG convention. Eric Maschwitz, David Wegmuller and myself
operate this line every once in a while with our donkey as a crotch line
loader.
But back to glitching:
It is obviuosly very important to shield the receiver/antenna from any
moving/rubbing metal parts !
Regards
Henner
Thanks Vance,
Well said! -and not clumsily!! I must admit that I love the fiddling
despite my clumsility! If a new engine or kit performs perfectly, I feel
cheated! Is that why I like Aster?? There I go!
Geoff.
Let us all try and be helpful in this hobby and not PICK, PICK!!
>>
> Let us all try and be helpful in this hobby and not PICK, PICK!!
> It gets us nowhere ...
Geoff, that rarely stops most of us...
> ... and makes me madder than hell!
... but this will stop me in my tracks immediately!
You're absolutely right that Aster have earned our highest respect for t
Vance,
You can't convince me on that!! I think Aster are the best in the 1/32
scale. An alcohol or coal fired loco always needs a little more fiddling
with the required fan and blower as opposed to butane fired locos. Why do
some hobbyists always like to make cracks against Aster--they have done
> I am convinced that cheap glitching is less annoying than expensive glitching.
This is a pearl of wisdom. Yet the people who buy Asters seem to have to fiddle with
them as much as (or more than?) the Accucraft owners to get a new locomotive running
smoothly. Who got the value for their mo
In a message dated 8/22/2004 6:32:54 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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>I talked to the guys at the local r/c shop, who sell mostly planes and
>cars, when I was buying servos for my first conversion. They told >me
about metal-to-metal glitching - apparently, any metal
teamer the bulk of the locomotive like boiler, cab, running board are
> "static" and seem to shield the moving parts. Anyway, I tried several of the
> tricks mentioned in the glitching thread, but nothing worked. I even tried
> to ground the receiver to the steam engine/boiler...
Henner,
I know your frustration with glitching. I've been fighting it for years. My
worst offender is my Ruby-Garratt with a steel boiler. First rule is don't
use AM. I finally found away to have a glitch free system. I am currently
using the SAM-2 Servo Smoothers from Sulpher Springs
Hi,
a year ago I installed a radio control in my A-C_l_i_m_a_x. Though I am
quite familiar with electronics, I never got it to work properly. Switching
components (Xtals/Receiver/Transmitter/Servo) did not help, glitching was
just outrageous. Even a deglitcher would not help - the average would be
Paul,
I understand!!
Fellow Glitching finger Geoff.
That was a glitching finger that sent that message
That was a glitching finger that sent that message
Paul Gamlin wrote:
I love your solution Paul!!
Geoff.
rd offering on many
UK models is to have an insulated roof hatch on the top of the cab as a
beacon. If one still gets glitching then a servo smoother with vary take up
speed will solve the problem completely. I would recommend one but am sure
that these things are available from different suppli
Hello Vance,
On this subject I tried this system without a lot of success. I then met a
guy with a model submarine who recommended wrapping the antenna around
a piece of 10mm dia wood or plastic tube. Then wrapping the whole in
aluminium foil, leaving about 1" outside. I tried it and it works. I
p
First thing to check would be your antenna. The best design I have seen --
compact and pretty effective -- involves cutting a piece of cardboard or
styrene with pinking scissors to give is a zig-zag edge. Then, wrap your
antenna around it, moving to the next point on each turn. This keeps the
a
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Behalf Of paul gamlin
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 2:52 PM
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Subject: R/C Glitching
I would like to here from members of this group that have and are using
radio control and how they improved its performance .
I
I would like to here from members of this group that have and are using
radio control and how they improved its performance .
I just purchased a FM R/C unit and am trying to control the rusty bolt /
glitching problem .
Thanks
Paul
Hi Earle
The only thing to watch is the heat build up in the batteries while
charging. This is dependent on the charger used (a trickle charger
builds minimal heat and produces minimal punch) I use a charger from
my RC racing days and set it at 1.5 amps - usually charges them in 20
minutes.
The
Thanks for the response! Your setup would be great for my Forney as I could
mount a charging plug under the bunker and avoid having to remove it to swap
batteries (on the Forney you must unscrew the bunker mounting screws and
carefully remove it to avoid scratching the paint!). Thanks!
> Hi Earle
Sandy loam soil!
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Good news on the track being straight and true as well as the layout being
article in SitG.
>
> Chuck
>
> -Original Message-
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> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 8:25 AM
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>
> Hi Chuck;
>
>
less snow in my
next article in SitG.
Chuck
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Hi Chuck;
I'm curious to find out how your railro
Hi Earle
Sorry the AA's are NIMH batteries. I have had great success with them
in my radio equipment . My charger does cycle them each time to get
maximum charge. I use the same charger as the nicad/nimh packs (sub C)
I just charge 4AA's at a time in series. (use a 4 batt holder plugged
into t
Hello Paul.
Thank you for choosing RCS.
I think we need to define what "Glitching" is.
The normally accepted meaning of "Glitching" is the sudden jerking
backwards and forwards of the servos used with digital proportional
R/C that are used for controlling the Johnson bar an
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>
>
> O.K. With the servo smoother installed, you can run with the transmitter
> turned off. I was thinking in terms of standard R-C units. The rule the
> airplane guys al
The rechargable batteries you refer to-are these NiCad or Metal
Hydride?Earle
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O.K. With the servo smoother installed, you can run with the
transmitte
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> O.K. With the servo smoother installed, you can run with the transmitter
> turned off. I was thinking in terms of standard R-C units. The rule the
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O.K. With the servo smoother installed, you can run with the transmitter
turned off. I was thinking in terms of standard R-C units. The rule the
airplane guys always
rottle settings I set it at and work just fine
> (glitch-free) even with the Transmitter turned off.
> For those of us with "glitching" R/C setups this device is a much cheaper
> way to get our units working properly without replacing with an RCS
system.
> From whats been said he
My point was that with the Servo Smoother installed my #24 will remain at
whatever direction/throttle settings I set it at and work just fine
(glitch-free) even with the Transmitter turned off.
For those of us with "glitching" R/C setups this device is a much cheaper
way to get our uni
My experiences with R-C says not to turn the transmitter off.. I'm not
talking about RCS here, which is designed to work that way. Turning the
receiver on by itself will let me see lots of glitching. Turn the
transmitter on and the signal firms up the servos with no glitching. It's
t
I had a pretty nasty glitching problem with my Sandy River#24. This was an
older unit with R/C from the factory however is FM (75mhz).
Last week I installed the Servo Smoother that Sulphur Springs sells for
Futaba-type 2 channel receivers.
It wasn't terribly cheap (80 some $) however the glit
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> > I don't RC my direction control because of glitching.
>
> Dave - smart m
Hello paul.
Thank you for choosing RCS.
I think we need to define what "Glitching" is.
The normally accepted meaning of "Glitching" is the sudden jerking
backwards and forwards of the servos used with digital proportional
R/C that are used for controlling the Johnson bar an
My biggest problem has been around power lines also. Wind going thru bushes
is also a problem. I have been able to reduce glitching by shielding the
reciever with aluminum foil and using three batteries instead of four to
power the reciever (AAA Duracells). The lower voltage slows the "
Is this the new RCS system that allows use of a cheaper car-type R/C
system, or the complete RCS system? I ask because I've never heard of
anyone having glitching problems with an RCS system (not that I've been
around that much.)
Trot, the curious, fox...
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, paul ga
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> > I don't RC my direction control because of glitching.
>
> Dave - smart man. I've had a few concertina pile-ups of hoppers due to my C-16
> stopping dead on my ground-level layout. I partially solve the problem by turning
> of
of the yard. Powerlines are sometimes strong between property lines. In
both cases I had severe glitching even with the RCS unit,
Paul
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> I don't RC my direction control because of glitching.
Dave - smart man. I've had a few concertina pile-ups of hoppers due to my C-16
stopping dead on my ground-level layout. I partially solve the problem by turning off
the transmitter, so there aren't any corrupt or margi
from low quality servos
also causes glitching with some 2 Ch R/C systems. I think the basic
principle for RCS fix will also work with regular R/C.
I will report back when I have more information.
Best wishes,
Tony Walsham.
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