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Model Railroad Hobbyist RailPro Contributor Needed
Alan:
--- Quote from: TwinStar on September 07, 2018, 07:58:20 PM ---The Sergent is cheaper, easier to operate, and is a scale replica yet guys are still reluctant to make the move.
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How do you perform remote uncoupling?
Asking because remote uncoupling is a mandatory feature in my application. I have a spur to an aggregate dealer that uses remote uncoupling otherwise operators would have to reach across 7 yard tracks. At another location remote uncoupling is used on two different leads inside a rubber factory building.
TwinStar:
--- Quote from: Alan on September 07, 2018, 10:06:33 PM ---
--- Quote from: TwinStar on September 07, 2018, 07:58:20 PM ---The Sergent is cheaper, easier to operate, and is a scale replica yet guys are still reluctant to make the move.
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How do you perform remote uncoupling?
Asking because remote uncoupling is a mandatory feature in my application. I have a spur to an aggregate dealer that uses remote uncoupling otherwise operators would have to reach across 7 yard tracks. At another location remote uncoupling is used on two different leads inside a rubber factory building.
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As far as I know you can't remote uncouple a Sergent.
G8B4Life:
--- Quote from: TwinStar on September 07, 2018, 10:22:10 PM ---As far as I know you can't remote uncouple a Sergent.
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Remote uncoupling can be done and has been done, though I can't think of where I saw it. It's not pretty though, it involves a trackside magnet that flips up over the couplers. What can't be done is delayed upcoupling. Unfortunately unlike the prototype once you've lifted the pin (ball in Sergents case) once you take the magnet away the ball will relock the couplers straight away if you didn't move the cars apart.
Edit. I found where I had seen the remote uncoupling. There is an animation on this page: http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/1442#comment-11815.
Unfortunately the link given in the post goes nowhere now.
- Tim
TwinStar:
--- Quote from: G8B4Life on September 07, 2018, 11:45:47 PM ---
--- Quote from: TwinStar on September 07, 2018, 10:22:10 PM ---As far as I know you can't remote uncouple a Sergent.
--- End quote ---
Remote uncoupling can be done and has been done, though I can't think of where I saw it. It's not pretty though, it involves a trackside magnet that flips up over the couplers. What can't be done is delayed upcoupling. Unfortunately unlike the prototype once you've lifted the pin (ball in Sergents case) once you take the magnet away the ball will relock the couplers straight away if you didn't move the cars apart.
Edit. I found where I had seen the remote uncoupling. There is an animation on this page: http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/1442#comment-11815.
Unfortunately the link given in the post goes nowhere now.
- Tim
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That is cool!
carrson:
As previously mentioned keeping the articles strickley on the topic of Railpro and how it operates and the features it has without comparing and bashing the other manufactures would be best. You want to focus on educating guys like me that do not have or have never operated a DCC system. The individuals with thousands of dollars invested in their DCC systems are not going to switch over so no use trying to convert them. I actually never paid much attention to the DCC articles in the magazine. It just appeared to be too complicated for me. Railpro solved my issues....Just my thoughts...thanks
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