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Re: 9V Electric Wires / Train Power
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lugnet.loc.uk
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Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:00:36 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.uk, Jennifer Clark writes:
> > The bulk bricks section of Lego Shop At Home still has individual 9cm 9v
> > leads for the rather steep price of £3.99 each (item no. 5041). I'm sure
> > they used to do some 28cm leads as well, but they seem to have gone now.
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> That is somewhat of a pain, for a while now I have been creating leads to
> "custom" lengths by cutting up the longer one you mention and reattaching
> connectors from shorter leads to the new segments. This seems to be
> remarkably easy once you know how, and and presumably it is possible to do
> so with non-Lego two core ribbon cable. £3.99 is a terrible price to pay
> though isn't it?
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> Jennifer
What I've done for a couple of point motors is cut a short cable in half,
then attached a Maplin 'battery connector' to each end. These are fairly
tiny flat rectangular plugs with a pin and a socket side-by-side. They're
discrete, and hold together fairly well. You also don't need separate plugs
and sockets, as there's no gender to them. I then made my own cables from
small speaker wire with one of these connectors on each end, in 2m extension
lengths to run along the layout. It at least saves having to use multiple
long cables at £4/m or more over long distances.
I didn't know Shop@Home had any cables left at all, so I'll get a few more
from there, cash allowing. I need to find the money for some more motors
too now...
I've yet to find a type of cable that works well with the Lego connectors.
How do you get your connectors apart, by the way? I poke a screwdriver into
the base beside the wire, twist to release the tab, then do the other side
too. It can leave the top part of the connector a little deformed though.
Jason J Railton
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| (...) into (...) Exactly the same here, and indeed they can be a little deformed at the end of the process, although it doesn't matter much. Using something very flat like tweezers or the end of a small penknife may be better than a flat end (...) (23 years ago, 29-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| (...) That is somewhat of a pain, for a while now I have been creating leads to "custom" lengths by cutting up the longer one you mention and reattaching connectors from shorter leads to the new segments. This seems to be remarkably easy once you (...) (23 years ago, 29-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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