Medical Train Car w/ JKunckle
There's one truth out there. The one thing you never think you'll need on the rails is medical facilities. We here at the JodianGaming workshop believe that you can never be too careful. This is why we went into full development mode to create the best darn medical center to ever hit the rail yards. Our facilities include a surgery room with a double set of medical beds, a waiting room with a 4 person capacity, and a medical secretary station to keep everything organised. The medical facility has a rather large battery capacity as well as roof-top solar cells to keep the lights on. While we always hope that your stay in the medical center will be a short one, we've prepared for the long-haul.
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JKNUCKLE CONTROL SYSTEM
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To give more of a simulation feel to my train system, I developed a unique "knuckle" and microcontroller combination that allows all of my JKnuckle train cars and engines to literally "speak" to each other. This system works on a Master/Slave control scheme, where the "Master" vehicle sends out the commands and the "Slave" vehicles obey the commands. It's important to note that you can only have ONE train car/engine set as the "Master" in the train consist, or weird stuff will happen (just like in real life). To prevent such errors all JKnuckle enabled train engines/cars are set to "Slave" mode by default, and only engines will have the option to be switched to "Master" at the conductor seat. So what does this actually mean for you?
Well, if you have a train with 3 engines, you can use the "Master" engine to control the brakes, throttle, and reverse toggle of the other 2 engines. The "Master" engine will also control the brakes of any JKnuckle train cars you have attached to it. The train knuckles always search for a valid signal along the train consist, so it doesn't matter where you install the "Master" train engine, it should be able to control the entire train consist so long as all cars use the JKnuckle system. Happy training!
