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Major changes at the LVET?
The CEO of the LVET today announced that major changes were to take place in the modis operandi of the Tramway. Months of hard diligent work are down the drain he said at an earlier Press Conference today at the International Tramway Eccentrics Conference ( iTEC) held in the rooms of the local orthopedic surgeon.
Trams will now be independently controlled that is each or severally by ?wireless? from small controllers that will be held in the hand of each driver eeer sorry Motorman. This new technology comes at considerable cost the CEO said, each tram costs $5.72 to convert for parts and about 3 hours rewiring the trams; which is very time consuming and tedious.
The first tram to be re birthed; Car No 2 the saloon car with the leadlight glass in the quarter lights on the Watsons Bay to Erskine St Wharf route, as a ?wireless? tram will have a great advantage over the old system of control by controlling the width of the power pulses in the trolley wire plus the lights can be left on an no one needs to be home. The overhead will be at a G scale 600 volts dc at all times when the substation is plugged into the mains. Reversing will still require the trolley pole to be swung and polarity to the traction motor will also have to be swapped over using the discretely placed switch.
When newer 3 channel control equipment arrives from Hong Kong the remaining cars will be able to have the lights and speed controlled as well as being able to sound their gongs at appropriate junctures in their journeys, this will add an extra few dollars to the cost of conversion?.
It is now a matter of waiting for a sunny day to rip out the existing control equipment and rewire the system from the substation so that power can be sent directly to the trolley wire instead of via long leads that inherently cause voltage drop.
The CEO of the LVET today announced that major changes were to take place in the modis operandi of the Tramway. Months of hard diligent work are down the drain he said at an earlier Press Conference today at the International Tramway Eccentrics Conference ( iTEC) held in the rooms of the local orthopedic surgeon.
Trams will now be independently controlled that is each or severally by ?wireless? from small controllers that will be held in the hand of each driver eeer sorry Motorman. This new technology comes at considerable cost the CEO said, each tram costs $5.72 to convert for parts and about 3 hours rewiring the trams; which is very time consuming and tedious.
The first tram to be re birthed; Car No 2 the saloon car with the leadlight glass in the quarter lights on the Watsons Bay to Erskine St Wharf route, as a ?wireless? tram will have a great advantage over the old system of control by controlling the width of the power pulses in the trolley wire plus the lights can be left on an no one needs to be home. The overhead will be at a G scale 600 volts dc at all times when the substation is plugged into the mains. Reversing will still require the trolley pole to be swung and polarity to the traction motor will also have to be swapped over using the discretely placed switch.
When newer 3 channel control equipment arrives from Hong Kong the remaining cars will be able to have the lights and speed controlled as well as being able to sound their gongs at appropriate junctures in their journeys, this will add an extra few dollars to the cost of conversion?.
It is now a matter of waiting for a sunny day to rip out the existing control equipment and rewire the system from the substation so that power can be sent directly to the trolley wire instead of via long leads that inherently cause voltage drop.
