Radio Control Hand Sized Unit

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Chris Olive

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Hello,
Can anyonme remember the name or make of the small cream hand held transmitter units with 2/3 knobs on that could control accucraft steam trains,etc, he also did the Recievers etc. I have lost all my internet favourites and cant remember, and want to know of any small pocket sized radio control units for Garden Steam Locos. Any help greatly appreciated!
 
gerik of this parish (google search Rik's Railway)..
Yatton do them as well..
 
He wasn't in my Beano (or Dandy) - or was he (sixty years ago)?
 
trammayo said:
He wasn't in my Beano (or Dandy) - or was he (sixty years ago)?
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Yes, very much so. Apologies for the thread drift.

General Jumbo (called Admiral Jumbo for a brief period in the early 1970s) was a British comic strip, published in the comics magazine The Beano and originally drawn by Paddy Brennan and, subsequently, by Sandy Calder. It debuted in 1953, so the concept was quite radical in those days. Alfie "Jumbo" Johnson was a 12-year-old boy who served as "general" to a remote control model army, navy and air force created by scientist Professor Carter.

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David1226 said:
Yes, very much so. Apologies for the thread drift.

General Jumbo (called Admiral Jumbo for a brief period in the early 1970s) was a British comic strip, published in the comics magazine The Beano and originally drawn by Paddy Brennan and, subsequently, by Sandy Calder. It debuted in 1953, so the concept was quite radical in those days. Alfie "Jumbo" Johnson was a 12-year-old boy who served as "general" to a remote control model army, navy and air force created by scientist Professor Carter.

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Thanks for that - you've opened up another synaptic pathway!
 
Rik, l like what you have done with the tx22. I would buy one if I hadn't already got the classic version.

There are two things I would like to see. These wants are based on my liking of the Aristo train engineer which I still use as my main means of control when using track power.
1. It would be great to have a receiver that works with the selecta tx but could cope with 24 volts and say 10 amps continuous load. This could be used as a base station in place of the train engineer and could also be used for controlling my battery locos. Size for this unit would not be important so it could have a big heat sink if necessary.
2. A radio control LGB point controller system. I know Deltang do a unit for controlling points but I don't think this could be used for LGB type point motors. A hand held unit with say 10 buttons that went to a receiver that would give a pulse of 12 volts for about one second with the current flow changing direction on each press would be fantastic for controlling LGB point motors. This feels like it could be quite easily achievable using the existing Deltang transmitter and a bit of fairly simple electronics at the receiver end. Easy for someone who knows about electronics that is but impossible for me. This again replaces a function of the old train engineer.

For those of us who don't want to go dcc the above would be very attractive kit. It would also provide a fairly low priced entry into garden railway control. Something that is missing from the hobby at the moment.
 
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chris m01 said:
There are two things I would like to see. These wants are based on my liking of the Aristo train engineer which I still use as my main means of control.
1. It would be great to have a receiver that works with the selecta tx but could cope with 24 volts and say 10 amps continuous load. This could be used as a base station in place of the train engineer and could also be used for controlling my battery locos.
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Hi Chris
Hmmm..... interesting idea. This would be possible immediately by using twelve Rx102s linked to twelve ESCs which were capable of handling 24v and 10A. Not very cheap but achievable in the short term. However, it should be possible to do it more cheaply, but some head scratching needed.


chris m01 said:
2. A radio control LGB point controller. I know Deltang do a unit for controlling points but, being a bit of a simpleton, I am not sure what would be required to get it working in the garden. A hand held unit with say 10 buttons that went to a receiver that would give a pulse of 12 volts for about one second with the current flow changing direction on each press would be fantastic for controlling LGB point motors. This feels like it could be quite easily achievable using the existing Deltang transmitter and a bit of fairly simple electronics at the receiver end. Easy for someone who knows about electronics that is. This again replaces a function of the old train engineer.

For those of us who don't want to go dcc this would be very attractive kit.
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I have done just that, using a Picaxe controller and some coding which Greg (gregh) helped me with.
http://riksrailway.blogspot.com/2015/08/how-i-operate-some-of-my-points-by.html

It's a bit of a fiddle - but again there might be a more elegant solution. More head scratching .....!

Rik
 
Now, recently (at Solihull, I think) there was a 'R/C person there.. - Might have been Timpdon?? ??

He had a 'several' output system for switching, or driving servos (I think), which relied on you 'pulsing' the stick 'n' times, either up or down, depending on the channel / direction you wanted..
Should be easy to design a circuit which takes a pulse from a push-button, and outputs 'n' pulses to drive a unit like this.

I will try and find the info..
 
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