Comeagain? Posted January 24, 2014 Posted January 24, 2014 Deja Vu/Afterschock also has secondary panels I dot have pictures of. But they're pretty simple. Two buttons, a red Estop and a green push button. At the panel closest to the console, they're "dispatch" button locks the operators gate. At the other end of the station it locks the ops gate and then holding it allows the cycle to start.
Golddisk Posted January 24, 2014 Posted January 24, 2014 Here's one of the giant wheel at Darien Lake. It's one of the few Ferris wheels left that is still driven manually from what I've heard/believe.
StealthFan Posted January 26, 2014 Posted January 26, 2014 ^I know Peeking Heights at Chessington is still manually driven. They are much easier to drive/park than powered coasters by far. -Craig
Coasterbp Posted January 26, 2014 Posted January 26, 2014 So I was looking through some of my pictures and found this:[attachment=0]Operator cabinet 3.JPG[/attachment] This is what the inside tends to look like. -Brian Brian -- feel free to post as many as you can! I love checking these out. When you worked at Consign, did another company fabricate your panels for you, or were those done in house? How about now at IOE? -=CoasterBP
IOE Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 Brian -- feel free to post as many as you can! I love checking these out. When you worked at Consign, did another company fabricate your panels for you, or were those done in house? How about now at IOE? -=CoasterBP Yes we had a panel shop when I worked at Consign. I am also using one for panel fabrication too, as they are far better at than I am . We produce all of the drawings and equipment list while they do the actual fabrication as per our specifications. And it leaves me free to concentrate on the engineering side. -Brian
Aceattack52 Posted January 28, 2014 Posted January 28, 2014 Yeah there's a lot of good stuff on here. I'll be sure to take a few pictures next time I go to a park.
IOE Posted January 28, 2014 Posted January 28, 2014 Here's a few more I found: Carowinds Touchscreen CGA Gold Striker transfer panel DP Talon Six Flags New Orleans inverted 1 of 2 Six Flags New Orleans inverted 2 of 2 Valleyfair Renegade touchscreen
Coasterbp Posted January 29, 2014 Posted January 29, 2014 Brian, theses are completely cool. Thanks for sharing them. Did you guys get my email? I see "Maintenance Bypass" on all Consign panels... trying to figure out what that does?... -=CoasterBP
IOE Posted January 29, 2014 Posted January 29, 2014 Brian, theses are completely cool. Thanks for sharing them. Did you guys get my email? I see "Maintenance Bypass" on all Consign panels... trying to figure out what that does?... -=CoasterBP Maintenance Bypass does a couple of things, the first is it allows maintenance personnel to dispatch a train using only the dispatch enable buttons at the main panel(This feature is not used when guest are on the ride and is only used for testing or parking trains). Another thing it does is allows the transfer track to be used, the ride will not allow the transfer track to move unless the main panel is in Maintenance Bypass. The last thing that this mode does is allow the switch from Manual Mode and Auto mode(Manual Mode on most roller coasters is only used by maintenance, during normal operation the ride is running in auto mode). The invert panel from Six Flags New Orleans is almost exactly like the main panel of Batman at SFSTL. The only difference is Batman has two switches at the top of the green side of the panel, the theme audio and a microphone switch. TNT, you were right about the single person dispatch but actually maintenance bypass generally only has one other function. That is it allows the lift also to be started by only one person. Transfer and manual modes can be used without maintenance bypass, but not all maintenance people believe me on that. For some reason (probably because we put maintenance on the key) it's often believed that key switch does a lot more. I've had the hardest time in training convincing maintenance they don't need to use that key . We may have used that key for another function or two but off the top of my head I can't think of any. -Brian
DJeXeL Posted January 29, 2014 Posted January 29, 2014 ^Makes sense. When I operated Silver Bullet at KBF, I never saw maintenance use the Maintenance Bypass key unless they were running the lift for their morning PM of the chain. Transfer mode was turned on and off by operators.
DJeXeL Posted January 29, 2014 Posted January 29, 2014 ^Same here however the operators would only turn on transfer mode at the end of the operating day to allow maintenance/operations managers to remove trains.
Seddy Posted January 30, 2014 Posted January 30, 2014 All of the above goes back to what I said about the difference between SF and CF parks. At SFOG we were never allowed to add or remove trains. Maintenance had to be called. Additionally, I remember my Supervisor using his key to turn the 'Maintenance Bypass' keyswitch at GASM to start the lift without needing a person on the lift. He also used it to reset a Ride Stop.
theintimidator Posted February 2, 2014 Posted February 2, 2014 I don't mean to bug, but can someone please help me find some nice and clear pictures of all of Afterburn and Intimidator at Carowinds' buttons and controls. I'm studying the mechanical and electrical part of rides and it would be awesome if you could help find Millennium Force and Gatekeeper too.
scottm13 Posted February 2, 2014 Posted February 2, 2014 I don't mean to bug, but can someone please help me find some nice and clear pictures of all of Afterburn and Intimidator at Carowinds' buttons and controls. I'm studying the mechanical and electrical part of rides and it would be awesome if you could help find Millennium Force and Gatekeeper too. Intimidator:
traincrossin Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 Here's GateKeeper's sexy control panel, I loved the touch screen and simplistic lines.
Coasterbp Posted February 6, 2014 Posted February 6, 2014 Here's GateKeeper's sexy control panel, I loved the touch screen and simplistic lines. That is a slick looking panel right there. VERY Clean. Love it. -=CoasterBP
Seddy Posted February 6, 2014 Posted February 6, 2014 This thread gets better and better. Gatekeepers panel is VERY sexy! I would love to see LL:DoD's panel and possibly S:EFK. There's more on my wish list but those 2 would make my day.
Comeagain? Posted February 6, 2014 Posted February 6, 2014 Out of curiosity... For any of these, if there was a need to (for instance) lock out the final brake run, so a train can't enter the station, is there a procedure for that or is it just not done? For the coasters I've ran, we have some metal boxes that we use to cover the brake release buttons to keep someone from pressing either of them, that is then locked to the face of the console. Are we the only people that do anything like that?
traincrossin Posted February 6, 2014 Posted February 6, 2014 Out of curiosity... For any of these, if there was a need to (for instance) lock out the final brake run, so a train can't enter the station, is there a procedure for that or is it just not done? For the coasters I've ran, we have some metal boxes that we use to cover the brake release buttons to keep someone from pressing either of them, that is then locked to the face of the console. Are we the only people that do anything like that? At GateKeeper you can go into the menu on the touch screen and stop the train in any block. We did that when doing block checks, although you might need to be in manual mode to do so. Or if you don't want the train to enter the station, just let go of the advance and dispatch button.
IOE Posted February 6, 2014 Posted February 6, 2014 Here is the beginning of Lightning Run's control panel and remote panels: Main operator panel Remote panels I'll post more to here and our facebook page as the build progresses this month. -Brian
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