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Fancy name for electronic track cleaner.
Does anyone know the fancy/technical name for a model railway track cleaner
that's based on flyback pulses from a blocking oscillator to break down oxide and crud on the rails? Googling "model railway+track cleaner" produced a few examples of commercial units but none were referred to by the technical name, I need some schematic examples to base a similar gadget to clean switch contacts in a 12V system that occasionally get corroded. TIA. |
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Fancy name for electronic track cleaner.
"ian field" wrote in message ... Does anyone know the fancy/technical name for a model railway track cleaner that's based on flyback pulses from a blocking oscillator to break down oxide and crud on the rails? Googling "model railway+track cleaner" produced a few examples of commercial units but none were referred to by the technical name, I need some schematic examples to base a similar gadget to clean switch contacts in a 12V system that occasionally get corroded. TIA. Will this help you? http://freespace.virgin.net/c.gardner/semg/relco.htm also http://www.merg.org.uk/resources/faq.htm Track cleaner A device for cleaning track so that dirt or other deposits do not impede the flow of electric current. A number of methods exist to accomplish this. MERG Technical Bulletin A4/1 features the Relco Track Cleaner which superimposes a high frequency, high voltage signal over the traction current. This burns through track deposits when traction is interrupted. Mechanical abrasive rubber-type products are also available such as the Peco PL41 Rail Cleaner and the MERG kit 83, PCB and Track Cleaner. These must be rubbed over the track to clean it. A variety of solvents applied with a clean cloth are also suitable as are a number of wagon-mounted abrasive blocks. A popular MERG method is to polish the rail tops with the rough surface of common hardboard. July 2006 |
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Fancy name for electronic track cleaner.
"Oppie" wrote in message .. . "ian field" wrote in message ... Does anyone know the fancy/technical name for a model railway track cleaner that's based on flyback pulses from a blocking oscillator to break down oxide and crud on the rails? Googling "model railway+track cleaner" produced a few examples of commercial units but none were referred to by the technical name, I need some schematic examples to base a similar gadget to clean switch contacts in a 12V system that occasionally get corroded. TIA. Will this help you? http://freespace.virgin.net/c.gardner/semg/relco.htm also http://www.merg.org.uk/resources/faq.htm Track cleaner A device for cleaning track so that dirt or other deposits do not impede the flow of electric current. A number of methods exist to accomplish this. MERG Technical Bulletin A4/1 features the Relco Track Cleaner which superimposes a high frequency, high voltage signal over the traction current. This burns through track deposits when traction is interrupted. Mechanical abrasive rubber-type products are also available such as the Peco PL41 Rail Cleaner and the MERG kit 83, PCB and Track Cleaner. These must be rubbed over the track to clean it. A variety of solvents applied with a clean cloth are also suitable as are a number of wagon-mounted abrasive blocks. A popular MERG method is to polish the rail tops with the rough surface of common hardboard. July 2006 That's one of the pages I found googling and it doesn't mention the technical name for an electronic track cleaner - I'll have to phone the local model shop and ask them. |
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Fancy name for electronic track cleaner.
"ian field" wrote in message news "Oppie" wrote in message .. . "ian field" wrote in message ... Does anyone know the fancy/technical name for a model railway track cleaner that's based on flyback pulses from a blocking oscillator to break down oxide and crud on the rails? Googling "model railway+track cleaner" produced a few examples of commercial units but none were referred to by the technical name, I need some schematic examples to base a similar gadget to clean switch contacts in a 12V system that occasionally get corroded. TIA. Will this help you? http://freespace.virgin.net/c.gardner/semg/relco.htm also http://www.merg.org.uk/resources/faq.htm Track cleaner A device for cleaning track so that dirt or other deposits do not impede the flow of electric current. A number of methods exist to accomplish this. MERG Technical Bulletin A4/1 features the Relco Track Cleaner which superimposes a high frequency, high voltage signal over the traction current. This burns through track deposits when traction is interrupted. Mechanical abrasive rubber-type products are also available such as the Peco PL41 Rail Cleaner and the MERG kit 83, PCB and Track Cleaner. These must be rubbed over the track to clean it. A variety of solvents applied with a clean cloth are also suitable as are a number of wagon-mounted abrasive blocks. A popular MERG method is to polish the rail tops with the rough surface of common hardboard. July 2006 That's one of the pages I found googling and it doesn't mention the technical name for an electronic track cleaner - I'll have to phone the local model shop and ask them. From what I can make of it, the device monitors the load and when it drops out, superimposes HF pulses on top of the DC feed. Sounds similar to the arc lamp ignitors I work with - a 20 turn winding in series with the DC feed to the lamp (track) and a 2 turn primary fed by a spark gap connected to a 600V charged capacitor. Spark gap breaks over and dumps capacitor into primary. Nice sparks on the secondary! Can't imagine this is too kind to any electronics installed in the layout but then again, probably doesn't need the 14kv that my lamps need. Happy Hunting Oppie |
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Fancy name for electronic track cleaner.
"Oppie" wrote in message .. . "ian field" wrote in message news "Oppie" wrote in message .. . "ian field" wrote in message ... Does anyone know the fancy/technical name for a model railway track cleaner that's based on flyback pulses from a blocking oscillator to break down oxide and crud on the rails? Googling "model railway+track cleaner" produced a few examples of commercial units but none were referred to by the technical name, I need some schematic examples to base a similar gadget to clean switch contacts in a 12V system that occasionally get corroded. TIA. Will this help you? http://freespace.virgin.net/c.gardner/semg/relco.htm also http://www.merg.org.uk/resources/faq.htm Track cleaner A device for cleaning track so that dirt or other deposits do not impede the flow of electric current. A number of methods exist to accomplish this. MERG Technical Bulletin A4/1 features the Relco Track Cleaner which superimposes a high frequency, high voltage signal over the traction current. This burns through track deposits when traction is interrupted. Mechanical abrasive rubber-type products are also available such as the Peco PL41 Rail Cleaner and the MERG kit 83, PCB and Track Cleaner. These must be rubbed over the track to clean it. A variety of solvents applied with a clean cloth are also suitable as are a number of wagon-mounted abrasive blocks. A popular MERG method is to polish the rail tops with the rough surface of common hardboard. July 2006 That's one of the pages I found googling and it doesn't mention the technical name for an electronic track cleaner - I'll have to phone the local model shop and ask them. From what I can make of it, the device monitors the load and when it drops out, superimposes HF pulses on top of the DC feed. Sounds similar to the arc lamp ignitors I work with - a 20 turn winding in series with the DC feed to the lamp (track) and a 2 turn primary fed by a spark gap connected to a 600V charged capacitor. Spark gap breaks over and dumps capacitor into primary. Nice sparks on the secondary! Can't imagine this is too kind to any electronics installed in the layout but then again, probably doesn't need the 14kv that my lamps need. Happy Hunting Oppie That's more or less right, its based on a blocking oscillator with a winding in series with the feed to the track. In a properly designed unit normal current flow to the track causes the BO to stall and draw minimal current, as soon as crud on the track breaks the circuit the BO starts and the high voltage pulses burn the crud off. A google search for "model train+track cleaner" didn't reveal the technical name for the unit and I've phoned all the model shops in the local directory, I've seen a circuit in one of the electronics magazines referred to by the technical mane, but there's a lot of magazines to search through. |
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Fancy name for electronic track cleaner.
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"ian field" wrote in message news "Oppie" wrote in message ... "ian field" wrote in message ... Does anyone know the fancy/technical name for a model railway track cleaner that's based on flyback pulses from a blocking oscillator to break down oxide and crud on the rails? Googling "model railway+track cleaner" produced a few examples of commercial units but none were referred to by the technical name, I need some schematic examples to base a similar gadget to clean switch contacts in a 12V system that occasionally get corroded. TIA. Will this help you? http://freespace.virgin.net/c.gardner/semg/relco.htm also http://www.merg.org.uk/resources/faq.htm Track cleaner A device for cleaning track so that dirt or other deposits do not impede the flow of electric current. A number of methods exist to accomplish this. MERG Technical Bulletin A4/1 features the Relco Track Cleaner which superimposes a high frequency, high voltage signal over the traction current. This burns through track deposits when traction is interrupted. Mechanical abrasive rubber-type products are also available such as the Peco PL41 Rail Cleaner and the MERG kit 83, PCB and Track Cleaner. These must be rubbed over the track to clean it. A variety of solvents applied with a clean cloth are also suitable as are a number of wagon-mounted abrasive blocks. A popular MERG method is to polish the rail tops with the rough surface of common hardboard. July 2006 That's one of the pages I found googling and it doesn't mention the technical name for an electronic track cleaner - I'll have to phone the local model shop and ask them. From what I can make of it, the device monitors the load and when it drops out, superimposes HF pulses on top of the DC feed. Sounds similar to the arc lamp ignitors I work with - a 20 turn winding in series with the DC feed to the lamp (track) and a 2 turn primary fed by a spark gap connected to a 600V charged capacitor. Spark gap breaks over and dumps capacitor into primary. Nice sparks on the secondary! Can't imagine this is too kind to any electronics installed in the layout but then again, probably doesn't need the 14kv that my lamps need. When I was a kid I built myself something similar for a Fleischmann model railroad. Those are DC operated. I don't have the circuitry or schematic anymore but basically I ran the pulses all the time. They got shorted out as long as the locomotive made contact and the spike voltage only ran up when dirt got in between. I built a simple pulse generator with Ge transistors (and blew quite a few in the process), a few Hertz, then hung a reversed transformer from an old tube radio in series with the variable transformer output. Since I had also built the regulator myself it compensated for the DC drop across the added transformer winding. Well, to some extent because I had no clue about loop stability and all that back then. Guess I lucked out. Of course, at that age I was blissfully unaware of EMC and all that stuff. So don't do this at home ;-) -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com |
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Fancy name for electronic track cleaner.
"Joerg" wrote in message ... Oppie wrote: "ian field" wrote in message news "Oppie" wrote in message m... "ian field" wrote in message ... Does anyone know the fancy/technical name for a model railway track cleaner that's based on flyback pulses from a blocking oscillator to break down oxide and crud on the rails? Googling "model railway+track cleaner" produced a few examples of commercial units but none were referred to by the technical name, I need some schematic examples to base a similar gadget to clean switch contacts in a 12V system that occasionally get corroded. TIA. Will this help you? http://freespace.virgin.net/c.gardner/semg/relco.htm also http://www.merg.org.uk/resources/faq.htm Track cleaner A device for cleaning track so that dirt or other deposits do not impede the flow of electric current. A number of methods exist to accomplish this. MERG Technical Bulletin A4/1 features the Relco Track Cleaner which superimposes a high frequency, high voltage signal over the traction current. This burns through track deposits when traction is interrupted. Mechanical abrasive rubber-type products are also available such as the Peco PL41 Rail Cleaner and the MERG kit 83, PCB and Track Cleaner. These must be rubbed over the track to clean it. A variety of solvents applied with a clean cloth are also suitable as are a number of wagon-mounted abrasive blocks. A popular MERG method is to polish the rail tops with the rough surface of common hardboard. July 2006 That's one of the pages I found googling and it doesn't mention the technical name for an electronic track cleaner - I'll have to phone the local model shop and ask them. From what I can make of it, the device monitors the load and when it drops out, superimposes HF pulses on top of the DC feed. Sounds similar to the arc lamp ignitors I work with - a 20 turn winding in series with the DC feed to the lamp (track) and a 2 turn primary fed by a spark gap connected to a 600V charged capacitor. Spark gap breaks over and dumps capacitor into primary. Nice sparks on the secondary! Can't imagine this is too kind to any electronics installed in the layout but then again, probably doesn't need the 14kv that my lamps need. When I was a kid I built myself something similar for a Fleischmann model railroad. Those are DC operated. I don't have the circuitry or schematic anymore but basically I ran the pulses all the time. They got shorted out as long as the locomotive made contact and the spike voltage only ran up when dirt got in between. I built a simple pulse generator with Ge transistors (and blew quite a few in the process), a few Hertz, then hung a reversed transformer from an old tube radio in series with the variable transformer output. Didn't the resistance of the transformer's primary drop most of your available suply voltage when the train was drawing (tried to draw) traction current? Chris Since I had also built the regulator myself it compensated for the DC drop across the added transformer winding. Well, to some extent because I had no clue about loop stability and all that back then. Guess I lucked out. Of course, at that age I was blissfully unaware of EMC and all that stuff. So don't do this at home ;-) -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com |
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Fancy name for electronic track cleaner.
Oppie wrote:
"ian field" wrote in message news "Oppie" wrote in message ... "ian field" wrote in message ... Does anyone know the fancy/technical name for a model railway track cleaner that's based on flyback pulses from a blocking oscillator to break down oxide and crud on the rails? Googling "model railway+track cleaner" produced a few examples of commercial units but none were referred to by the technical name, I need some schematic examples to base a similar gadget to clean switch contacts in a 12V system that occasionally get corroded. TIA. Will this help you? http://freespace.virgin.net/c.gardner/semg/relco.htm also http://www.merg.org.uk/resources/faq.htm Track cleaner A device for cleaning track so that dirt or other deposits do not impede the flow of electric current. A number of methods exist to accomplish this. MERG Technical Bulletin A4/1 features the Relco Track Cleaner which superimposes a high frequency, high voltage signal over the traction current. This burns through track deposits when traction is interrupted. Mechanical abrasive rubber-type products are also available such as the Peco PL41 Rail Cleaner and the MERG kit 83, PCB and Track Cleaner. These must be rubbed over the track to clean it. A variety of solvents applied with a clean cloth are also suitable as are a number of wagon-mounted abrasive blocks. A popular MERG method is to polish the rail tops with the rough surface of common hardboard. July 2006 That's one of the pages I found googling and it doesn't mention the technical name for an electronic track cleaner - I'll have to phone the local model shop and ask them. From what I can make of it, the device monitors the load and when it drops out, superimposes HF pulses on top of the DC feed. Sounds similar to the arc lamp ignitors I work with - a 20 turn winding in series with the DC feed to the lamp (track) and a 2 turn primary fed by a spark gap connected to a 600V charged capacitor. Spark gap breaks over and dumps capacitor into primary. Nice sparks on the secondary! Can't imagine this is too kind to any electronics installed in the layout but then again, probably doesn't need the 14kv that my lamps need. When I was a kid I built myself something similar for a Fleischmann model railroad. Those are DC operated. I don't have the circuitry or schematic anymore but basically I ran the pulses all the time. They got shorted out as long as the locomotive made contact and the spike voltage only ran up when dirt got in between. I built a simple pulse generator with Ge transistors (and blew quite a few in the process), a few Hertz, then hung a reversed transformer from an old tube radio in series with the variable transformer output. Since I had also built the regulator myself it compensated for the DC drop across the added transformer winding. Well, to some extent because I had no clue about loop stability and all that back then. Guess I lucked out. Of course, at that age I was blissfully unaware of EMC and all that stuff. So don't do this at home ;-) -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com |
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