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In reply to your observations, Alex. Sat at home, I couldn't suss out what was happening. But then it occurred to me. The photocell is below the first light. When it cuts in, the first light illuminates the photocell. Need I say more? The lamps have a thermal switch inside them and won't re-strike u...

None of us came in today because of the weather. Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year to all our readers.

Re the original clock. It'll need a great deal of TLC to restore it! Perhaps we'll have a go at building an MSF(Rugby) receiver into it this time??

Who broke the diesel on the way up to Rawt?

Have any of you lads got or know where we can get electrical schematic diagrams for the various coaches' lighting circuits. Showing the RCH plugs, batteries, regulators, dynamo, controls and so on. Any known websites? We used to have some in The Cubby Hole under the stairs but they've gone. The faul...

charterboy wrote:You forgot to mention you trip upto Rawtenstall

Was this for work or just for pleasure

Yes

Solar Panels would have to have batteries. Both are expensive. If we used the very best lamps, they would perhaps be as low as 40Watts each and we'd need about 12 so that's 480W. That would need 24volts at 20amps. A big battery. If the lamps needed to be on for 3 hours and allowing for ageing of the...

This Sunday, John, Johnathan, Len and Clive turned up. Replaced 6 of the lamp tops at Summerseat. Total now done is 10 with 5 remaining. The tops will be repainted and refurbished as part of our continuous cycle (Forth Bridge???). Clive then went up to Rawtenstall to have a word with Lez, the statio...

In reply to the question about the slave clock. We could get a synchronous motor with a cam which trips a mcroswitch twice on each rev. In the past, I've tried this and the microswitch tends to fail 20,160 activations per week! Cheapest way I can think of at the moment is a little PIC costs about 98...