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Re: Some more infos on new trains // more new infos as quoted from 1000steine
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:05:26 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Stefan Garcia wrote:
> Six hours? Seems a rather horrid endurance to me, certainly in terms of
> shows.
If you have an rail-powered train running constantly on each track and augment
the layout by manually running an IR train on each track as well, then a set of
batteries will easily get you through a day at most shows. Use rechargeable
batteries and you can power them up each night.
I'm looking forward to handing a controller to kids in the crowd and letting
them run the train for a while. Give them five minutes or until they cause a
crash!
But if you want to run them by themselves, yes. Six hours is pretty weak.
More importantly, didn't someone mention a timer? I bet they work like the
Duplo trains, where they turn off after a couple of minutes with no input. If
you want an unattended layout, you'll probably have to rig up a Mindstorms unit
somewhere on the layout to transmit a signal every time the train passes by.
Fortunately, the NXT RCX can run off an AC outlet. Unfortunately, this is a
very expensive workaround.
> Hm. I want to get my hands on one of these things and see what they can do!
Darn right!
--
Tony Hafner
www.hafhead.com
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| (...) Tony- Huh? The Wired article specifically mentioned that the user group lobbied hard for an external power port but did not get one. -Ted (18 years ago, 12-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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