Category: Control Systems

We're Getting Close! Nothing is standing in our way.....except all the things in this video. The biggest obstacles are the charging of the capacitors and the turning of the motor. They worked...

In part 4 of our journey to the world's Best Backyard Coaster, we encountered some issues with our capacitors. They are not charging evenly. So in order to get an accurate voltage rating of the...

Yes the last free video - sign up to see the rest of the series for creating Tilley's Terror, our backyard roller coaster. We will discuss the launch system of our backyard coaster and how error...

We are moving forward on our launch system for Tilley's Terror. Our coaster launch, well at least the prototype, is taking shape as we are now able to move the launch dog on the track. Watch to see...

We are working on our launch system for our backyard coaster. This system will work similar to Top Thrill Dragster which is an hydraulic cable launch. We don't need quite as much horsepower, so we...

So we're building this new spectacular coaster Tilley's Terror and the controls will be expensive. We want to layout our control box without wasting material, so how do we do that.Quite simple, we...