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Postby planea380 on June 18th, 2004, 8:33 am
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aero737 wrote:
w00dland wrote:Viper: 15 mins w/ breakdown (My applause to the ride ops/maintaince for absolutly flying to the station and get the ride back up. When it went down I just saw a ride op fly down the employee staircase.)


Yeah...that was good, I had fun chatting with the girl who had to climb the lift hill. Yup, I was in the last row on that train. We even had time to make some phonecalls. Kinda fun.


Hey, I was on that train too. I thought the ride op was going to keel over by the time she got to the top of the steps. They did a great job getting it running again. I never did hear for sure what triggered the e-stop. I though the ride-op said something about letting the other train into the station too soon but I didn't think that was possible.


That has been happeneing quiet often this year, it is something with the transfer track.
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Postby rctfan1556 on June 18th, 2004, 10:06 am
I am probably gonna go to the next CAD event and would my Employee ID work to get in?
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Postby monopotassium on June 18th, 2004, 12:38 pm
planea380 wrote:That has been happeneing quiet often this year, it is something with the transfer track.


No, it isn't. Familiarize yourself with the following idea: "roller coaster block system."
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Postby planea380 on June 18th, 2004, 12:48 pm
If it would be the block system it wouldnt have to estop, they would use a ride stop.
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Postby monopotassium on June 18th, 2004, 1:48 pm
No, you fool, the beauty of modern block systems is that they are computerized. Nobody does anything but notice that the ride found a problem.

Which means that the rides do not "e-stop" themselves. Rides at SFGAm are designed to lose power with e-stops.

There was a violation of the ride course block, so the lift (and train on it) was stopped by the ride computer.
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Postby Danhockey04 on June 18th, 2004, 5:07 pm
you are both right, the transfer track does move, cause the train to not move into the station, and remain on the block brake, and then it stops on the lift hill.
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Postby Timmy179 on June 18th, 2004, 6:52 pm
Yeah, you both explained a good half of the block system.
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Postby monopotassium on June 18th, 2004, 10:27 pm
NO! if the transfer track moved, there's no way that train on the lift would not be evacuated.

There's a bad proximity box on the brakes after the transfer track which has caused problems this year, but that's neither what that genius brought up nor the reason the lift stopped.
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Postby MaTriX_PL on June 18th, 2004, 11:07 pm
i really haven't been on any of the old rides but i would like shock wave to be back so i can check it out :P
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Postby Timmy179 on June 18th, 2004, 11:11 pm
wrong topic dude
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