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Hi, Can someone please give me some reference material about digital control for trains? I mean, not on a specialist level, I just want to learn a bit more about this subject. TIA, Pedro (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.pt)
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Check this site and click on DCC Projects. (URL) Fay "Pedro Silva" <el_gordo@netc.pt> wrote in message news:GKr7I1.n00@lugnet.com... (...) for (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.pt)
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(...) Thank you very much, Robert. Do you know if anyone else besides Tom is working on this subject? I liked his page Pedro (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.pt)
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His is the only one I know of that is directly related to Lego trains. You can go to (URL) and follow the ring at the bottom of the page to find a great deal of information on DCC and model railroading. -- Bob Fay "Pedro Silva" <el_gordo@netc.pt> (...) (23 years ago, 6-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.pt)
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(...) Pedro, Feel free to ask away here if you want-I'm sure having msg's to refer back to here wouldn't hurt. I know there are some people who frown on it because it is not a pure lego system, but to me, the advantages of digital outweigh the (...) (23 years ago, 6-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.pt)
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In lugnet.trains, James Powell writes: (snipped) (...) Whoa! That was exaustive as explanation! Thank you very much! The first thing I noticed is that I will require both "professional" help and $. I am not really an expert in electronic, rather an (...) (23 years ago, 6-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.pt)
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(...) Sounds neat- perhaps you could post a jpg on brickshelf of the layout. I'm sure that other people would like to see it too :) (...) The costs for DCC have gone down _a lot_ since it first came out (1986 or so...). I don't think that costs are (...) (23 years ago, 7-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) James, do you mean to say that you are actually running ~5 trains on your LEGO layout? That you are actually using DCC successfully? I've heard many people talk about it, but so far no one has posted pics and "Look what I did"'s... I've wanted (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.pt)
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(...) I've only tried 3 at once. I only have one throttle with 2 speed controls, therefore after 3 trains, it becomes somewhat harder to control the trains. However, I have demo'd this at LLCa, it was on the PNLTC layout. Works fine, except that (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) How many controllers can your system have at once? (...) How does that work? The conventional? Surely when you have the standard one you can't run other trains right? Otherwise there would be no power for the DCC trains? What part of DCC heats (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) With the system I have, up to 22 trains (so, 11 dual controllers active-or up to 22 single controllers active) (...) Yep, there is power. The DCC is sent out as a square wave AC pulse, with the first 1/10th or so containing the coded info, (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) all of the WAMALUG/WAMALTC shows in the past year or so have been using dcc... sometimes running 5 trains at once (which is what Tom's DCC is capable of dealing with, I think). Aside from being very confusing to control, it's a whole lot of (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Wow! I'm getting excited again. What I have plans to do is to use an electro magnet for the shunter's coupler. Then I can swing over and grab a car and drop it where I want. It would be FANTASTIC to show this off at shows. With 5 people (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) nod, it's pretty cool :) we still need to set up automatic points... that's the only holdback from a fully sit-down-while-runni...the-layout setup :) (...) Our DCC is all Tom Cook's work - and he explains how to modify the engins on his site, (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Dan Boger dan@peeron.com (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) that's www.lgauge.com dear :) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Just redirecting to .trains Pedro (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Does that include accessories? Like Switch tracks or automated loaders, bridges etc... How do you trigger accessories? (...) Wow. Amazing! Truly! (...) The fact that you CAN run any standard Motors is amazing in it's self! (...) What DCC (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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ontrollers can your system have at once? (...) up (...) Nope- they are under a separate pool. With the DCC system I have, you can have up to 9982 DCC equipped mobile decoders at once (plus one analog one...although, if you have 9982 DCC decoders, I (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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<Snip>The special motors are used for my Tyne Dock train-including working brakevans...)<Snip> (...) Is that Tyne Dock Newcastle. Show me Show me!!! Tim (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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<Snip> (The special motors are used for my Tyne Dock train-including working brakevans...) Is that as in Tyne Dock, Newcastle? do you have pictures, i'm interested! Tim (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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<Snip> (The special motors are usedfor my Tyne Dock train-including working brakevans...) Is that as in Tyne Dock, Newcastle? do you have pictures, i'm interested! Tim (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I've been reading the info on the Digitrax website. Some nice stuff. Some confusing still but I'm figuring it out. I think the 1 to 9999 range on the decoders is so you can put the train's number into the system. VERY COOL! I haven't gotten (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yep. I have a loco # 1021 (figure that one out-hint, the clocks), and then 2500/2510, The 25's are my pair of class 25 diesels-they have the special wiring setup for operation of the brake vans. Being able to number in any series of 4 digit (...) (23 years ago, 13-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yep, that'd be it. Take a look at my web page ( (URL) info on the hopper cars. I've also built a pair of class 24-26 DE's to pull the train with. These have electrically operated brake vans attached to them semi-permanantly. It's quite neat (...) (23 years ago, 13-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) VanLUG is that a 'real' train club? The prices I got (in CDN are) Empire Builder II $425.00 DN142 $72.00 (Same one that comes with the above kit) DN121 $35.00 DZ121 $62.00 Seems reasonable to me. (...) Yes, please do. How are you controlling (...) (23 years ago, 13-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) You can set the max output voltage from the boosters-its another thing I haven't done yet, but you can adjust it between 12-20 V via a switch on the front. I'd assume the decoders burn ~1.5-3V internally, but I am not sure. (...) Then, you (...) (23 years ago, 13-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) How do they work? Do you actually brake the wheels, or just run a motor in reverse? ROSCO (23 years ago, 13-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) If you punch in Brakes as a search here, you will eventually find a link to the .cad design for the early version. (I've regressed to a 2 axle car since then though...it works better for UK style stock) It (the .cad) does show the ideas (...) (23 years ago, 13-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi, Just to let you know that i'm also converting motors to work with a DCC system, kinda Maerklin / Uhlenbrock. It's a 'self made' system in witch you have to solder all the stuff together, as the controller board, booster (5 or 10Amp's !!), (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.pt)
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