Assist Laurence to get his boat back into the Thames after some dry-yard work and then get it back to its mooring.
Lunch in Geoff's sun-drenched garden.
Work....... there was something we were doing.......it'll come to me........... Finish off the point rewiring!
It did take a while to get our brains back into work mode, but we made it. Geoff & Stephen took a board each and 1) rewired some existing connections and 2) incorporated the two extra wires to each board. The previous two-option arrangement (all-straight or all-crossed) was now replaced by four options:-
A quick running session to test it all? Nothing that simple...
With everything plugged in, all we had was a dead short. We tried isolating everything, to no effect. We eventually found a wire in the portable controller had opened up exposing bare wires. After a quick repair, normal service was restored. It all worked really well. The clunking definitely seemed less-fierce and using the four new routes seemed very natural. It was well worth doing.
Finishing off the magnets is next. After a quick review, we decided to omit all between-the-rails magnets and go for one electromagnet on the main platform and the rest as under-board home made units, as fitted the previous week.
