This is a real uniqe lift hill. How many other lift hills use this type of LSM not to launch, but to bring the train up the lift?
what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard.
Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.
I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Probably none. They'll be pulling a lot of juice becuase they'll be fighting gravity.
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That'd be a cool roll back... I wonder how long it would take to roll back to the station from the top of the hill.
So would there be a catch system on the bottom of the train, or is the station empty until the train crests the lift?
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crazy horse said:
This is a real uniqe lift hill. How many other lift hills use this type of LSM not to launch, but to bring the train up the lift?
California Screamin' (has a launch and a second lift hill with LSM.)
CoasterDiscern said:
So would there be a catch system on the bottom of the train, or is the station empty until the train crests the lift?
Since the trains advance through the station in pairs, I would assume there are retractable brakes at the base of the hill. The train will be decending slowly enough that one set would likely be sufficient.
^ Also, with only 12 people in a train, there is no way the ride could afford to wait until a train cleared the hill to move another train into the station.
And, Revenge of the Mummy has a LIM lift/launch.
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There are LSM's at the bottom of the hill, which, when not charged, act the same as static fins.
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Are you saying that they will act as anti rollbacks?
The whole concept of a LSM lift hill has me confused.
what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard.
Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.
I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
No, an anti-rollback implies the train can't move backward, but it can. In other words, in the event of a total power failure, the train will slowly roll back to the level base of the station, where the drive tires will stop it completely.
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That surprises me a bit, considering Intamin's track record. What is something brakes, like what happened with Superman ROS at SFNE? With Intamin, anything seems plausible.
Either that or "anything that COULD go wrong will, eventually. Look at the gearbox on TTD at the end of the '05 season.
Coaster Junkie from NH
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Putting faith in a system that, in theory, SHOULD work as designed, is a risky plan. Call me old-fashioned but there is no substitute for well-build safety hardware like anti-rollbacks. But I guess everything has been working fine on California Screamin' for the past six years?
Well, we haven't heard about anything like trains flying off the tracks or people having heart attacks like on Mission: Space, so i think things are working okay.
Coaster Junkie from NH
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^^^...working fine until the trains bumped last year :)
Seriously though, California Screamin' has as set of fin brakes along both sides of it's launch lifts that serve as an anti rollback, not the LSMs...probably due to the size and weight of the trains.
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But Maverick isn't going to have them? Isn't that taking a risk, especially considering that another train is out of the station and ready to go while the first is climbing the lift?
Who knows? Maybe they just haven't installed them yet.
Coaster Junkie from NH
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Could be, although if the coaster is going to open soon, I would think that the brakes would be installed and ready for testing. It seems to take a few months to properly calibrate a computer system for a high-tech steel coaster.
Rob, they just finished the pull-trough. It'll take them two weeks, tops, calibrate the braking system They still havent finished the tunnel yet! If they stiil haven't installed it by April 1st, be concernd, and i'm not fooling.
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