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Re: Thoughts on Battery-powered IR-controlled trains
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego
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Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:29:47 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Ross Crawford wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Brian Davis wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Christopher Masi wrote:
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6. The IR unit is built into a 30-stud long base plate.
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Note that for the strong of heart, this might still allow smaller
trolleys...
with some ABS shavings. But hacking the motor to allow RP and IR
controlability
seems a likely direction in any event.
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Also, for locomotices, the IR plate could be used on rolling stock pulled by
a
shorter loco (this is how most of the old 4.5v trains worked). Doesn’t wor
for
trolleys though :(
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It’d be a nice nostalgic moment to see a battery tender version of the IR
system, based on a short wheelbase. If you take a hacksaw to this one, your
wheelbase is still going to be a minimum of 14 studs long, if you have the
wheels right at the end. At that size you’d really want three axles to make it
look good.
I understand the IR base has a large 4-wide lump in the middle of the top which
actually houses the electrics (only the batteries hang below), so maybe a taller
version could have batteries on top, but still be narrow enough to build up the
sides of a tender. I’d have to practice my in-line SNOT though...
;-)
Jason Railton
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