Rollback Reset

My feathers are so ruffled I cant even finish my mini corn dog basket.

What is wrong with you? A corn dog basket? Everyone knows the hand breaded chicken tenders are the bees knees.

Kevinj:

"It would go over every time if it was built union.. well that's what you get."

This is my favorite quote ever. Because it was. lol

the launch intensity looks the same to me on webcams....

I can't believe people are even considering whether it could shoot off the back spike.

the physics make it impossible absent a phantom 2nd backward launch (or 3rd overall launch), which cannot happen unless someone hacks the control system and rewrites the code to permit not only a third launch, but one which exceeds 101 mph and instead gets closer to 120mph. The likelihood of that is virtually nil.

veritas55:

The likelihood of that is virtually nil.

So you’re saying there’s a chance?

Long time listener, first time caller… rode TT2 at the Maria’s event, blown away about the power this coaster puts you through. Roll backs are going to happen sure, seems like something else might be causing an issue since they stated tt2 will not open today. Hopefully they can get whatever they need to get done to this coaster to get it back and running asap!

I am not there today as I am working nights but the weather in the area is once again not the best. My daughter is there and there was lots of rain this morning and winds are supposed to be gusting to 30 MPH. I did notice each time it rains the tubes from the air blowers that cool the plates on the track are filling up with water, not sure if that is a huge issue but if the blowers weren't needed I doubt they would be there. Speculation at its best!

Speaking of the old TTD rollback reset process... was the process of bringing the train back to the launch position fully automated or was it manual? I remember it being crazy slow. Train hits the brake fins and comes to a crawl, and would just crawl most of the way back with all the brake fins up. The fins would drop a few times and as soon as the train started moving any faster than a slow walk they'd basically stop it again and resume crawling.

I get wanting the train to be going slow when it starts getting close to the launch position again, but I don't know why it needed to go that slow over the entire launch track.

From my understanding, I believe that was just the braking strength of the fins and they were static. So it was just one slow, constant speed driven by the angle of the launch track unless they dropped the fins which was pretty jerky. The LSMs, on the other hand, can move the trains in forward and reverse in a controlled manner and put them back where they want them much more efficiently.