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Traincontroller 43 – Kadee Couplers
The previous post showed the hardware for uncoupling wagons using Kadee couplers. This video is about how to uncouple automatically in Traincontroller.
It’s just a little sequence of events that needs to take place and that is programmed in a macro. The macro can be called from e.g. a push button or from the ‘finish operations’ of a schedule. The macro contains the following steps:
1 reverse driving direction
2 set speed at a low value
3 delay the amount of seconds needed to move the couplers to the magnet
4 stop
5 reverse direction
6 set speed at a low value
7 delay the amount of seconds to drive the loc away a bit
8 stop
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