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Re: Thoughts on Spy Photos of New Trains
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 7 Jan 2006 18:15:55 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Mike Petrucelli wrote:
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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 polarity switch (or even turning the plug around the other way)
will fix that. While I am not a die hard train fan I still like the whole 9v
standard and hope that they are simply using the same motor with a new
battery box controller. (Turn off the battery box and stick the train on 9v
track and away you go.) This would actually make sense if, as TLC stated,
they do not intend to discontiune the 9v train system but have both, so that
kids can “graduate” to the the 9v trains. What better way than to have the
cheaper battery train sets you “already own” work on the more expensive 9v as
well.
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Eureka, Mike! I think you have nailed it! The spy pics show metal wheels,
suggesting that they are indeed still utilizing the 9 volt train motor. That
side thingie I was concerned about now appears to be the sensor that gets the
signal from the remote unit. It would be nice if the battery box contained a
quick recharging battery that could easily be swapped out.
If this system IS the way you suggest, it would be quite elegant indeed! And if
this all is true, then I would not necessarily consider this a new system, but
rather a clever augment to an already good one!
Though it makes me think that the death knell for metal rail track cannot be
far off. And I seem to remember that that manufacturing process was the one
that TLG wanted to get rid of.
Hold off on buying all of those 9 volt motors, Ben! :-)
JOHN
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| (...) I'd just assumed that most train-heads knew that already. John, you need to open up and talk to the six-wide builders more... ;-) But what does happen if you connect a 9V battery box to a train motor is that you get not so much a (...) (18 years ago, 7-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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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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