Hi All,

What ever happened to the KISS principle, gong is so much easier to
maintain long term than an audio solution!

Peter

On Friday, 16 July 2021 at 12:48:29 UTC+10 Matthew Geier wrote:

> What has the state of engineering come to when a simple coil solenoid and

> a 'capacitor-discharge unit' (gong enhancer, yes there is a little DIN

> mounted box in the Variotram labelled 'gong enhancer') controlled by a

> simple push button that applies 24v to the circuit has to be replaced with

> a speaker, amplifier and an MP3 player because it's 'simpler to maintain'?

>

> A handful of electronic components (the solenoid and the capacitor unit to

> 'enhance' the strike of the solenoid) are replaced with a microcontroller

> (with embedded software) and many dozens of components that make up the MP3

> player (the sound source gong) and the power amplifier for the speaker.

>

> The chip manufacturers must love this. Actually, there are massive

> shortages of all sorts of high tech parts at the moment. The entire

> industry relies on low-cost labour in predominately Asian countries for

> fabricating chips and other components. These regions are now ravaged

> (again) by COVID.

>

> Look forward to trams off the road because the gong player has failed and

> the distributer cant get any microprocessor modules in.

>

>

>

>

> On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 at 12:24, Yuri Sos tram...@...> wrote:

>

>> Yarra Trams is replacing bells with electronic gongs.

>>

>> Yuri.

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