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Re: LEGO 9V Train Communication II
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:47:49 GMT
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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... ;-) )
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.
One of these days, I will get to have another steam engine. (Traction engine).
Now, about the battery IR trains, I have been playing with my current generation
one (the green freight train) and was actually quite suprised how well it works.
I don't know how long it would last doing it, but it will pull 6 bogie cars
without too much problems, and fast enough to unload the entire train in a
rotary direction at a curve...just like the 9V trains.
The IR stuff is a totally different direction than the 9V line, DCC is not
something which a battery operated train should consider. The best coms scheme
I can think of is probably the IR one, as RF rules differ so much from place to
place. The alternative would have been bluetooth, or similar international
computer standard, but Lego have decided not to go down that road at this time.
It is possible that by 2009, when the next generation of trains are released,
they will have changed their minds depending on price point. I would not be
supprised to see such a change, depending on the relative costs of circuitry
construction. The IR stuff is fairly specific to TLC, whereas Bluetooth is a
very universal thing. Therefore, the cost for IC's/circuity for bluetooth is
more likely to drop than the IR equipment.
The Power Command setup would seem to be friendly to a change, as the motor and
battery box are not going to need to be changed, but the transmitter/reciever
combo would. Bluetooth would give some excellent options to the system...
James
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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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| (...) 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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