Name: PLUG Talk March: Signals and Control @ Castledare Miniature Railways
Start: 2015-03-14T10:30:00+08:00
End: 2015-03-14T13:00:00+08:00
Location: Castledare Miniature Railways

Talk: PLUG Talk March: Train Talk Miniature Railyways.

Mike Crean has kindly invited us to visit Castledare Miniature Railways!

This month's meeting will be a little different, rather than our usual talk at Spacecubed on the second Tuesday of the month, this March we are going to Castledare Miniature Railway. Mike will be showing us all of the below and more on the day.

Where: Kent Street Wilson aka Kent St. Weir http://www.castledare.com.au (http://www.castledare.com.au/contact.html)

Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Synopsis:

Mike has spent the last 20 years or so of his career doing many things: trouble shooting well field, mechanical, electrical, automation and IT problems for a small company Landfill Gas and Power Pty Ltd whose head office is in Belmont and are a part of the Westrac group. LGP have several gas recovery and electricity generation sites around Perth and interstate.

While at LGP he code cut a SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) package that was used for many years until a cost effective commercial replacement was found.

He also developed and made a full landfill gas engine management system using Atmel 8535 micros as the core embedded control device, some of which are now used as signal control at CMR.

Bio:

Mike has been an active member at the CMR railway for over 10 years and in that time has refurbished 3 locomotives of his own and become very involved in the railways signalling system.

The team at Castledare have built a new signal box at Niana and it is being developed as an automated signal control station for the Niana area rail network. It has two PCs on Ubuntu and a Click PLC all controlled from a custom SCADA system implemented using Gambas3 (a VB look a like). This is a very nice package and a true RAD.

The Castledare signals are generally stand alone and are using Arduino Unos connected to a 433 mHz wireless network back to the local signal box. These signals use ultrasonic train detection or track mounted treadle
switches. Some are also used to operate electro mechanical or pneumatic points at remote locations.

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