 | | ILTCO Article - Making heavy-duty powered LEGO® Track Connections for Public Display Layouts —Mike Walsh
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| | | A new article has been contributed the ITLCO web site. Making heavy-duty powered LEGO® Track Connections for Public Display Layouts by David 'Zonker' Harris of BayLTC. (URL) Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring.com (URL) - North Carolina LEGO Train (...) (21 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.announce.iltco, lugnet.trains) !
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| | | | | Nice article! I was able to do something similar, except I brought the wire in from underneath the track through the slots between the ties. I also have a very nice soldering iron and lots of experience with getting connections like this to work (...) (21 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: ILTCO Article - Making heavy-duty powered LEGO® Track Connections for Public Display Layouts —Lewis Valentine
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| | | | | (...) Good article. I was working on a similar system for ngltc. But i did mine a little differently. My goals other than the obvious were Minimize the modification of lego parts. Keep the cost down. Compatibility. (ie we could use the same system (...) (21 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: ILTCO Article - Making heavy-duty powered LEGO® Track Connections for Public Display Layouts —Mike Walsh
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| | | | | | | "Lewis Valentine" <lewis@nitorco.com> wrote in message news:Hso1E0.1wJE@lugnet.com... (...) Layouts (...) the (...) [ ... snipped ... ] This would make a good topic for an ILTCO article - care to write one? ILTCO Members can submit articles by (...) (21 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: ILTCO Article - Making heavy-duty powered LEGO® Track Connections for Public Display Layouts —James Trobaugh
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| | | | | | | (...) I like Lewis' idea for two reasons: First, since he's only creating an extension of the normal LEGO wire system I can use standard track power connectors, thus elemenating the need for a hard wired piece of track. I know my luck and the wires (...) (21 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: ILTCO Article - Making heavy-duty powered LEGO® Track Connections for Public Display Layouts —TWS Garrison
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| | | | | | (...) IndyLUG did essentially the same thing a while back. The one problem we had was that we used the really short wires from ZNAP sets, so we ended up with non-Lego wires on the tables and these bulky connectors that needed to be concealed (I (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: ILTCO Article - Making heavy-duty powered LEGO® Track Connections for Public Display Layouts —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | (...) a standard 9v LEGO wire underneath it. This serves 2 purposes: It allows connection of a controller to test the polarity before soldering, by setting the controller and touching the wires to the conductors you can quickly see if polarity is (...) (21 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: ILTCO Article - Making heavy-duty powered LEGO® Track Connections for Public Display Layouts —Dean Husby
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| | | | | (...) I noticed in the above article there was the shameful hacking of a good LEGO connector cable. This is needless slaughter! I'm sure you guys have many 2x2 connectors just waiting to be harvested for a useful task! Inside each and every LEGO (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: ILTCO Article - Making heavy-duty powered LEGO® Track Connections for Public Display Layouts —Thomas Waadeland
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| | | | | (...) From the article: "The longest power cable I've seen from LEGO is 1-meter in length." The longest I have is 3 meters. The LEGO dacta 9898 set has two such cables. Regards, Thomas (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: ILTCO Article - Making heavy-duty powered LEGO® Track Connections for Public Display Layouts —James Powell
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| | | | (...) What I did for the Train Operating Weekend last year was to make 12 gauge wire connectors, run into screw type connectors. These each had a 2x2 plate connector wired to it (not the lego original ones, but ones made from plates, with 18 ga (...) (21 years ago, 14-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: ILTCO Article - Making heavy-duty powered LEGO® Track Connections for Public Display Layouts —Kevin Wilson
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| | | | James Powell wrote in message ... (...) W or (...) I still have to post the final detailed presentation notes, but the page related to my BF PDX presentation on Operation is here: (URL) kit: (URL) TOWN PLANNING information: (URL) Lego parts store: (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: ILTCO Article - Making heavy-duty powered LEGO® Track Connections for Public Display Layouts —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) very detailed presentation on their event CD, though. Kevin cut it down some for what he actually presented. (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Operation notes (was: ILTCO Article - Making heavy-duty...) —Kevin Wilson
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| | | | (...) Darn. That'll teach me to to post from memory when I've just got home from a trip! Correct link is: (URL)PDX attendees got a copy of a (...) some for (...) The notes which will be at that link later today are more detailed and better organised (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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