Rail crane

[AMJ]

I suppose that there are a few different schools of thought about fitting a crane with motors for all of the possible animations.

 

1. Traverse
2. Jib up/down
3. Rotate jib
4. Hoist hook

 

Technically unless you had a decoder that could cope with 4 reversing motors I presume that most would require 4 decoders.

 

A quick dirty thought might be a low powered relay from a different function on a decoder to direct the motor output to the relevant motor.

 

Tempted to experiment at some time with one of these

https://sarissa-precision.com/products/steamcrane-rollingstock?fbclid=IwAR1BLvBAe1sTxwbu1PMBFGnKesFqF_KQIQIIdiNLjLbpDL_ZxM5F3BKRRSo

 

[Giles]

The easiest way is using radio control, as you just have a joystick to manipulate, rather than buttons etc.... The Deltang receiver is smaĺler than most decoders.

 

Here is my 0-14 example

 

 

[Gordon A]

Don't forget travel.

 

Gordon