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The final act of the WNO Area Group Meeting was the cutting of the Anniversary cake. It seemed such a shame to cut the MERG Logo’d cake but Bob Vetterlein, accompanied by the other Committee members, wielded the cake slice with aplomb and the cake was enjoyed by all.\\ | The final act of the WNO Area Group Meeting was the cutting of the Anniversary cake. It seemed such a shame to cut the MERG Logo’d cake but Bob Vetterlein, accompanied by the other Committee members, wielded the cake slice with aplomb and the cake was enjoyed by all.\\ | ||
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- | **<color #00a2e8>Next Meeting - JULY 21st 2018</ | + | **<color # |
After our signature bacon rolls, prepared by **Mike Collins** and **Mark Reader**, the thirty seven members who came along to the Leamington and Warwick MRS Clubrooms settled for our meeting featuring a review of two members' | After our signature bacon rolls, prepared by **Mike Collins** and **Mark Reader**, the thirty seven members who came along to the Leamington and Warwick MRS Clubrooms settled for our meeting featuring a review of two members' | ||
- | All the projects made use of Arduino technology and the interface to CBUS. This technolgy can often be used to provide cost effective solutions to particular problems. | + | All the projects made use of Arduino technology and an interface to CBUS. This technolgy can often be used to provide cost effective solutions to particular problems. |
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+ | **David Thomas** showed three projects | ||
+ | - DCC Suttle | ||
+ | - CBUS Sound System | ||
+ | - Multi Cab Controller. | ||
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+ | The **DCC Shuttle** is, as the title suggests, for DCC only. It uses an Arduino Uno, a widely available CBUS interface and a " | ||
+ | The **CBUS Sound System** uses the "sound card" with an Arduino Nano and MPEG3 player on board.The CBUS interface is connected to the outputs of the Nano and set up using FCU Generic mode. Cbus events (for instance from sensors) can then generate sounds. | ||
+ | The **Multi Cab Controller** was developed to suit a samll demonstration layout at the David' | ||
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+ | There were two parts to the presentation by **Jeremy Mole**. | ||
+ | Jeremy has used an Arduino to provide a means of communicating between the cassette yard operators at either ends of the LWMRS N-gauge exhibition layout Kineton. It uses CBUS as the communication method to transmit predefined messages about the type of train being sent from end to end. Jeremy is working with **Bob Mercer** who is also a member of the Kineton team to automated messaging regarding the presence of a cassette, it's state (empty or full) and an automated stop. | ||
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+ | In the second part of his presentation, | ||
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+ | The afternoon workshops covered hands on sessions of soldering and configuring CBUS using FCU. Many members carried on discussions from our previous meeting around Duxbury - the 00 Gauge exhibition layout which utilises CBUS. | ||
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+ | ==== 2019 Meetings ==== | ||
+ | **Jan 26th** Meeting\\ | ||
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+ | On the third anniversary of the formation of the WNO Group, forty members attended the meeting at the Leamington and Warwick MRS. | ||
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+ | For the benefit of some newer members, Peter gave a short overview of principles of CBUS. However, the core of the presentation covered everything from the Classic CBUS modules through Second Generation to a more detailed description of the CANMIO series and all its derivatives including the daughter boards. Pete used the Kit Locker to show the modules and the power of the " | ||
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+ | In the afternoon, three of the LWMRS club's exhibition layouts were running: Duxbury 00 gauge finescale DC / CBUS; Kimble 0 gauge DCC / CBUS and Kineton n gauge finescale DCC / CBUS enabling members to see practical implementations of MERG technology. In addition John Gowers' | ||
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+ | Having started at 9:30 with bacon rolls and the consumption of many cakes throughout the day, the meeting finally closed at 17:00. | ||
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+ | Almost forty members came along to the second meeting of year at the Leamington and Warwick MRS club rooms. Our signature bacon rolls were prepared on arrival as usual by MERG and LWMRS members Mike Collins and Mark Reader. | ||
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+ | This allows members to have an informal get -together before we settle down for the morning’s proceedings. | ||
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+ | **Mike Plowman** welcomed the members and introduced the theme for the 2019 – **<color # | ||
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+ | This meeting concentrated on a recap of the CBUS. Mike described the basic principles of the CBUS system – the need for the twisted pair, continuity of the bus and the termination resistors. He showed the concept of the producer / consumer model and how events can produce actions on specific modules attached to the CBUS. The benefits of the four-wire bus were explained and set the scene for **<color # | ||
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+ | Jeremy, with his twenty years’ experience of CAN, was able to show the structure of the “messages” and the way they are prioritised on the bus. He estimated that on a typical CAN bus, where messages from sensors and actuators are passing every few microseconds in both directions, that the bus is about 80% utilised compared to a CBUS which is probably about 2% where messages pass every few seconds. | ||
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+ | Many members were able to avail themselves of the extensive kit locker which is now being managed by **<color # | ||
- | **David Thomas** showed three projects | + | In the afternoon, members were able to mingle informally to ask specific questions of the specialists and to have techniques demonstrated. |
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+ | * July 20th | ||
+ | * September 21st | ||
+ | * November 16th | ||
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==== Exhibitions ==== | ==== Exhibitions ==== | ||
**Leamington & Warwick Model Railway Society Show**\\ | **Leamington & Warwick Model Railway Society Show**\\ | ||
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Leamington Spa College, Warwick New Road, Leamington Spa, CV32 5JE.\\ | Leamington Spa College, Warwick New Road, Leamington Spa, CV32 5JE.\\ |
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