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| | | (...) Brian, the more I read this, the more I am with you. I think I really need to re-think my LEGO budget for next year... Three trains sounds like fair enough to me, since our house is not supposed to grow and the trains need some space to be (...) (16 years ago, 19-Dec-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO 9V Train Communication II —Brian Davis
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| | | | (...) I've got to say if I muttered those words aloud, my wife would likely come at me with a large blunt object :). But I agree - I need to lay hands on an IR train and start working out more of this myself as well. (16 years ago, 19-Dec-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO 9V Train Communication II —David Koudys
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| | | | | (...) If someone can get hold of Mark Riley and have him 'fix up' LDCC to be 'Power Functions/RC Train' IR compatible instead of DCC, that'd be a quick fix :) The rest is already built in--remote control, LACC, etc... Dave K (16 years ago, 19-Dec-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO 9V Train Communication II — Gereon Stein
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| | | | (...) It's those smaller, sharp and pointy objects that I'm worried about actually... plus I've got a couple confessions yet to make about my other hobby (there are some more saxophones in this house than she is aware of... ;-) ) But I've got the (...) (16 years ago, 19-Dec-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO 9V Train Communication II —James Powell
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| | | | (...) Ohh...my wife and I have a deal, I can have as many steam engines as she has animals. (+1, which I had before her!). So, at present I have 2 large engines here. There's a 3rd one that I part own, but it isn't here...hence, it doesn't count. (...) (16 years ago, 28-Dec-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO 9V Train Communication II —Brian Davis
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| | | | (...) It could, but I'm not sure what the increase in cost would be. IR is extremely mature technology, and can be done without and special hardware; very, very cheap, yet (within its limitations) fairly robust (especially LEGO implementation of it, (...) (16 years ago, 28-Dec-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO 9V Train Communication II —Sivan Toledo
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| | | | (...) Bluetooth is indeed probably way too expensive and complex. Perhaps the costs would go down, but probably not enough to make this cost-effective. There are cheaper radio systems, like 804.15.4 (ZigBee) that would make more sense than Bluetooth (...) (16 years ago, 28-Dec-07, to lugnet.trains)
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