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Re: Latest Larger Layout
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lugnet.org.ca.nalug
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Thu, 9 Nov 2000 02:35:00 GMT
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"Michel Magnan" <m_magnan@telusplanet.net> writes:
> Chris, once your train tracks start to extend outside your spare room, you will
> start to place several power cables throughout the layout, to minimize dead
> spots behind switches, and to maintain fairly even power levels. I thought the
> connecting loops could also serve for train storage, when they aren't being
> used to move trains between the inner and outer loops.
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> According to the track designer program, there are no shorts in the layout. I
> must admit that I confirmed this manually, because I wasn't sure it was right!
My concern isn't shorts - I mentally checked that myself. My concern is
that there will be power to that section more often than one might want.
It being a connector between two separately powered loops is what makes
it special. Although, since the Lego controllers use two-pronged plugs,
there shouldn't be a common ground between the two controllers, so that
might avoid any problem.
--
Don't design inefficiency in - it'll happen in the implementation.
Chris Gray cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA
http://www.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA/cg/
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