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Thanks for the nice comments, Dave.
> A few points--is the RCX suppose to quietly hum when it's running the • track?
> It's very faint but it's definitly humming...
Yes, the humming is "normal" - my sample base being two RCXs. :-)
Sorta reminds me of that buzzing you hear around high voltage power lines.
> The last time I looked at DCC, they were talking about the track layout • being
> 'on' all the time, so that 1 non-modified motor could also run on the • track--I
> put my non-modified motor on the track and it just sits there--humming. • Can a
> LEGO speed reg also be connected up to the same track with the RCXDCC to • control
> non-modified LEGO motors, or is that a bad thing?
It's not a bad thing. But it does suck a lot of power even when the
motor is sitting there stopped. It's called pulse stretching and
you can achieve something like 70% of full speed using an
unmodified train motor. LDCC currently doesn't support this,
but I plan on implementing it, if for no other reason than the fun
of seeing it work. One of the side effects is that it reduces the
bandwidth for DCC transmissions, so commands to other
locomotives experience some latency. Probably not an issue
for small layouts, but I've heard that some clubs ban the use
of DC locos because it degrades performance for the other
users.
Cheers,
Mark
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| In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Mark Riley wrote: <snip> (...) Well, after a few hours of "extensive tests"... I have come to the following conclusion-- This is the greatest thing since LEGO came out with 9v trains and the RCX. Forget the track cleaner (...) (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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| Well, Some Totally Awesome Stupendous Guy by the name of Mark posted the other day talking about getting an RCX to be the DCC for train layouts... I can throw around a soldering iron with the best of em so I went up to my local hobby shop, picked me (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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