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Drew has moved (see bio) @drewph@ieji.de
· 2mo ago

#Today #3Things

  1. Our recent #coconut harvest, though not our biggest by number of nuts, is the record-holder for gross profit thanks to bigger nuts and a higher market price per kilo for the dried #copra.

  2. Some useful comments on my humungous #tech post last night mean that I have some new #ModelRailway software to try out.

  3. My efforts to show willing for my wife's birthday event include a new shirt, which (after having bought it under duress) I actually quite like, despite spending 99% of the time in a teeshirt these days.

Added the #3GoodThings tag because they're all good today!

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Thomas the Dank Engine @Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social
· 5mo ago
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It’s a sort of purple colour. #ModelRailway
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Thomas the Dank Engine @Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social
· 5mo ago
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I was really impressed with the train itself though. It's a nice size, a good balance of detail and size overall. Looks fabulous, especially with the lights on the end! #ModelRailway
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Phil Haigh @gulfie@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
No pictures because… frustration. I finished re-mapping all my DCC sensor boards and points and updated JMRI so that it has all the new references, and so the old references are deleted. I think I might have two or three point sensors back to front still, but I’ll work that out next time. After a very long and frustrating evening testing LocoNet cables for faults, and LocoNet boards for faults, and making new cables, and testing those, and going round in circles… I finally worked out that my LocoNet boards are picky about the order they physically appear on the network 😡 (the DCC command station has three network ports on it, they’re all in use, and two have multiple devices connected in an essentially random order). Yeah. Go figure. Who knows, there might be a reason. But I’m not thinking about it tonight. #ModelRailway #LocoNet
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Phil Haigh @gulfie@mastodonapp.uk
· 5mo ago
This afternoon I finally finished properly educating myself on the subject of DCC addressing with respect to sensors, and specifically how sensor boards work on LocoNet - and that block occupancy seniors occupy the same addressable space as, say, point feedback sensors. Now that probably seems obvious but what wasn’t obvious to me was how YaMoRC sensors get their LocoNet ID - just subtract 1 from the first address and then divide by 16 and add 1. Took a bit of experimentation but now I have six IDs for Digitrax boards and four for YaMoRC boards, with no overlapping addresses 🤦🏻 and space for growth (that I almost definitely don’t need). Now I’m just writing up documentation before I reconfigure JMRI. It’s a big step forward even though it doesn’t look like one. #ModelRailway #DCC #digitrax #progress
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Jon Roach @FourT4@mastodonapp.uk
· 7mo ago
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In a couple of hours I got all the fiddle yard wired up to power. Got the point motors to add, but running out of space on the bus to add any more break-in tags. Might need to extend the bus and turn it back on itself. You can get 4-way solenoid-and-decoder devices but I think I'd prefer the flexibility of 4 separate solenoid-decoder pairs. #ModelRailway
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Jon Roach @FourT4@mastodonapp.uk
· 7mo ago
That's the fiddle yard laid and glued down. Join me* on some unspecified future date for a demonstration of upwards soldering as I tie 30+ dropper wires into the main bus without dripping solder in my eye. *it would be lovely to meet you in person, but if you think I'm going to broadcast this like some sort of "influencer", think again. #ModelRailway
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