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Re: Thoughts on Spy Photos of New Trains
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 6 Jan 2006 15:33:02 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, John Barnes wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Timothy Gould wrote:
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--SOMEWHAY SNIPPED THROUGHOUT--
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- It appears that the battery motor has metal flanges like the 9 volt motor. Probably good; will last longer than mere plastic.
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Maybe it is the old motor, or a slightly modified version. In some ways it
wouldn’t surprise me if they reused the existing manufacturing line.
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I am hoping it will be a modified version of the 9v motor. If it is the same
motor, then if it runs onto metal track, it’s battery will find itself
powering the track out through the wheels instead of getting power in through
them. (The modification would be to simply delete the wipers which connect to
the power from the wheel flanges.)
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I’m not really hoping, but it would be awesome if they modified the existing
motor to allow it to be powered by either battery or off the rails.
The very best (IMO) would be like the trainmodders have done -- the power picked
up from the rails is fed to an output on top of the motor unit, and the actual
power to run the motor is fed in through an input on top of the unit.
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Of course, this would not be an issue on plastic track, but I believe I
recall, at BrickFest 2005, Jake saying that the battery and earlier 9v
systems would interoperate. So battery trains (which have the capability to
be independently controlled on the same stretch of track) would short to each
other on a metal clad track which would not be compatible.
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As long as it’s compatible with NXT...
Steve
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) The current 9v motor can be powered by rails or a battery box. Just plug a battery box where the light brick would normally connect and turn it on. The only thing is it will go backwards compared to normal power by the wheels. However a (...) (18 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) I am hoping it will be a modified version of the 9v motor. If it is the same motor, then if it runs onto metal track, it's battery will find itself powering the track out through the wheels instead of getting power in through them. (The (...) (18 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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