Official Testing Thread

Troika is testing!

Boo-yah!

Does CP usually test on Saturdays? I've yet to catch a ride running, and I have some free time, so I didnt know if I would be wasting my time or not. Actually its fun to just be watching the rides!

You guys have some great pics of the rides testing! I finally got to see the WT going! I've been to CP three times and I have never gotten to ride it. It's always down. :-( We're going on May 30th, so hopefully I'll get my first WT ride!

They've been known to test on Saturdays (and even Sundays) before; there's no reason they wouldn't now...

Thanks. I just didnt know if I would be better off to wait until Monday or not!

Yo Brittnay I heard they made some improvements on WT so hope to see ya on the 30th

Improvements? What might those be, Andrew1? :)

heard they reconstructed some things and such hopefully it will run more consistant

^You mean the magnets?

They rebuilt the LIMs?

i dont remember what, forgot who I heard it from maybe it was just rumors pretty sure it was the magnets

Last year they blew the transformers behind the ride and needed to get portable ones on a trailer because the new ones wouldn’t arrive till March. Or at least that was what I was told.

Big Jon said:
Last year they blew the transformers behind the ride and needed to get portable ones on a trailer because the new ones wouldn’t arrive till March. Or at least that was what I was told.

Ahh, that's what those were. I knew they had blown them, but I thought they replaced them already, and that those were the old ones waiting to be disposed of. It all makes sense now... :)

Top thril Dragster has been testing all morning and it hasn't had a role back yet, that I have seen. They just better not break it before opening day.
*** Edited 4/30/2006 4:17:49 PM UTC by Big Jon***

That would stink for it to break during testing and not be open the rest of the season.

I can't believe the foolishness here.

TTD this time of season will ALWAYS have rollbacks. Probably each train will rollback due to the trains being cold. Once the parts/bearings warm/loosen up, they'll be fine.

"due to the trains being cold." That makes no sense. I would think they would be hot because the whole "moving parts generate heat" nonsense...

A cold train plays no part in a rollback. Weather, weight and hydraulics are the key factors.

I'm pretty sure they just don't fire it up and run it at full power. Just like letting your car warm up during a cold winter morning, you just don't start your car and throw it in gear, you will have all kinds of problems if you do that.

That's what the test runs in the morning are for.

TTD- you wouldn't know. I would... trust me ;)

Rollbacks first thing in the morning are ONLY when the trains/medusa are cold! As full onset of summer gets closer, the warmer overnight weather aids in getting the trains over the top the first time in the morning.

ONCE the trains warm up, and everything is fluid, the computer will start adjusting power for the time it takes to make it over the top.

Until it has a baseline every morning, the ride launches at the last set power until it clears. Once it clears, it starts making new calculations. Thats why rollbacks occur more in the afternoon- once the trains have warmed up, the computer will take a very small amount of power out in a goal of going over the tophat the SLOWEST without rolling back. Once it takes out a touch too much of power, there is a rollback, and this whole process starts all over.

By saying the trains are cold, I also mean the medusa is cold as well. Everything takes time to warm up. *** Edited 5/1/2006 12:57:16 AM UTC by cedarpointr0x***