Elias Iten

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  • Birthday 05/04/1989

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  1. Elias Iten
    Thanks! :) Here is a first picture of the new deflector-module built into the conveyor-system: You see, the intermediate-station will be huge! On the other end, the same conveyor-system will be added and the size therfore even doubled. Greetings from my LEGO-room :)
  2. Elias Iten
    Actually it works exactly like this on Funitel-Ropeways. On 3S-Ropeways also quite similar. It can't really be built more simplified :P But anyway I like complex mechanic-solutions.. Win-Win :)
  3. Elias Iten
    So I worked on another possible solution to take the gondolas from their rails and store them in a nearby garage :) What do you think of it?
  4. Elias Iten
    Hi everybody :) I uploaded a video showing my first attempts of a deflection to store the gondolas in a nearby gondola-garage. The real ropeways do so to protect the system from heavy winds during the night. Without gondolas attached to the rope the system is not problematic with crosswind. What do you think of it? Right now I'm experimenting with an alternative to this system. greetings from Switzerland, Elias
  5. Elias Iten
    I also like wheeled MOCs ;) That's why I put about 80 wheels in my ropeway. Just now I'm working on an intermediate Station with a Garage for the 15 gondolas that will finally run on the system. Therefore I need another 120 wheels ;) Sums up to 200 wheels in total. More than every other MOC out there I think.
  6. Elias Iten
    Hey Torso :) I like wheeled MOCs but when I look at the great builders, for example in the hall-of-fame, I see 90% cars. I wanted to build something else and ended up with even more wheels Do you have any idea what I could build next as a non-vehicle-moc?
  7. Elias Iten
    Hey DrJB Thanks I started with the gondola-clutch. I tried to build it as small as possible. Then I did the acceleration-rails with all the gearing. Continued by a minimal working radius for the 180-degree-turn. This lead to the overall-dimensions of the station. Check my name out on Facebook and you'll find a lot of photos from the very beginning :) I documented in nearly 100 photos how I came to this MOC. I didn't do a digital version. Just sat in my LEGOs and started with trial and error. The Ropeway has no real "brother" I wanted to focus on the mechanical part and this part is identical on almost all 3S-Ropeways. So it's a generic model. I hope it helps you understand the principle now and if you have further questions just ask me.. :) greetings from snowy Switzerland :)
  8. Elias Iten
    Thankyou
  9. Elias Iten
    ;) I know the cabin-design is not that detailed. For me this should be a Technic-model featuring as much Gears and complex mechanisms as possible to realize the real behavior in a MOC. I didn't focus much on the cabins for that reason. The housing for the stations doesn't exist for the same reason. So people can focus on the mechanic part 100%. I hope you can just like it as a Tecchnic-Model ;) And I'm sorry that I posted the YouTube-link too much. I just added a signature right now so interested people will find me if they like. Is that OK Jim?
  10. Elias Iten
    Thank you :) I added another picture.
  11. Elias Iten
    No, I don't know these guys. But their MOC is awesome :) But it's another type of ropeway. I have a 3S-System with 3 ropes (2 stationary and 1 haul-rope)
  12. Elias Iten
    Thank you Carsten! I soon will upload some more videos to YouTube showing this process in detail. Each gondola-"wagon" has a clutch that permits to grip the haul-rope. This clutch is opened, once the gondola enters the station.
  13. Elias Iten
    Thanks guys :) If you have any advice to improve this model, please tell me :)
  14. Elias Iten
    While skiing I had the idea to reproduce an entire detachable ropeway just with LEGO-Technic-Bricks. After 400 hours of developing, testing and programming the model was built from scratch without any construction plans. This ropeway is an improved version of my first ropeway 2 years ago ;) This model-ropeway works just as its real brother. The eight gondolas are detached in the stations and slowed down to let passengers board easily. But not just the cable-clamp-mechanism is realized like in real ropeways but also the rope tensioner. This mechanism keeps the haul-rope always tensioned by the information of the sensors. Other sensors supervise the distance between the gondolas and adjust it when needed by slowing down a specific motor. Also the haul-rope is monitored by sensors. If the rope falls out of a deflection pulley the whole system performs an emergency-stop. The entire model and even the whole control system with sensors and processors consists of usual LEGO-parts and is driven by 16 motors in total. Along with about 300 gears and 1‘000 chain-links, 10'000 parts were needed. Pictures of the building process can be found on Facebook Next year I plan to build an intermediate station with another 6’000 parts. The whole ropeway-model then will be powered by 30 motors, 4 Mindstorms-Computers, 15meters of technic-chain-links and about 500 gears.
  15. Elias Iten
    asd how can I delete this post? and how can I include YouTube-Videos?