Rider way

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The rider way is a further development of the chain. It is suppler but harder to insert. Beginners shouldn't use the rider way.

You need three elements for the run of a rider way:

1.) Segments of the rider way intrinsically. Each of these segments has got an own drive and moves all elements attached to it with the speed that is given of the drive in the direction of the segment. But you should only fix 'riders' to the rider way.

In contrast to the chain each element of the suspension railway is completely independent. The connection between the segments has to be created by them explicitly by transitions. The rider way does not have an end like the linear mover. All riders fixed to it moved towards the railway until they have found a new father.

2.) Rider. These are elements which differ slightly from the box. You should use them as hangers for hooks or similar. A rider always moves with the speed of the rider way whose child it is. And here transitions come into play: they can change the father of a rider. So a rider on its round trip can be moved by different segments of the rider ways.

3.) Transitions. A transition works as follows: in every cycle it checks: Am I overlapping with a rider? If it has found such a rider it asks: Am I overlapping with the end or the start of a rider way? If there is such a rider way the rider is re-hanged from the old rider way to the new one, that means the father of the rider is changed from the old to the new railway.

Important while placing an transition is that it overlaps with the new railway, but not with the old one.

You can realize switches, for example, by fixing two rider way segments to a linear mover. Which segments is in the transition at the moment decides from which segment the rider is incurred.

Tips to work well with the rider ways:

A transition is only usable for one direction. If the rider shall run over a transition point in both directions you need two transitions. But you have to take good care that the rider never overlaps with both transitions.