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Re: Review of 7897 Passenger Train available at ILTCO site
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 11 May 2006 15:33:56 GMT
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> In lugnet.trains, John Barnes wrote:
> > I would assume that for a "normal" metal clad 9v rail
> > system, the new IR baseplate can be designed into a
> > rail car which has independent remote control of a
> > model feature. For example, assuming you can power
> > a technic 9v gear motor from the IR receiver, you
> > could build a working crane. I think this is a nice
> > possible way to include this new functionality into
> > the pro train line. Oops, sorry, I mean hobby train
> > line ;)
In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> Yes. But you only get one control input so you may
> need to use reversible drive mechanisms that do different
> things in different directions, etc if you want two
> features... The RC cars have more than one control input
> but are too big to build into train models (unless you're
> J2 working to 14 stud wide scale or something)...
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> I need to do the experiments with 9V motors, train
> motors and etc as your post is hinting at and as Dave K's
> post asks. If I get time this weekend I will.
This is what I wanted it for, but the big bulge above the baseplate will be very
hard to disguise. That's why I went to Maplin for an IR kit I could fit into a
brick-built box. It turned out a bit bigger than I planned, but I've hooked it
up to a crane that uses torque-management around a differential to control three
separate motions from one motor. Pictures to follow when I can.
I hide my 6x8 receiver box in a small steam engine, but if you build a diesel
around the controlled baseplate you could always do what I did and have a power
take-off lead to attach to your powered widget-wagon. I've been testing an
automatic uncoupler in a little shunting yard coal wagon, but something like
that is going to look a little strange behind a diesel.
My brain is currently in meltdown considering the possibility of building an
uncoupler into a bogey with wheels just pegged onto the side (maybe the drive
comes down through the pivot point from a motor above, operating a gear rack
mounted sideways to pull the magnet in).
If you could make all the doors on a train open and close together, that'd be a
neat trick to start with though.
Jason R
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| (...) Yes. But you only get one control input so you may need to use reversible drive mechanisms that do different things in different directions, etc if you want two features... The RC cars have more than one control input but are too big to build (...) (18 years ago, 11-May-06, to lugnet.trains)
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