 | | Re: Even more Wow!! for your buck!!! was Re: Woo Hoo!!!!! (part deux...) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | (...) The latter I think... by having a truck long gap, the motor coasts across the gap but never shorts out from one wheel set to the other, once it hits the powered side again (even though the polarity is reversed) it just continues on. This is (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Even more Wow!! for your buck!!! was Re: Woo Hoo!!!!! (part deux...) —David Koudys
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| | | | (...) Yep--Larry hit it on the head--the isolated section is so there isn't one set of wheels on one polarity, and the other set of wheels on the reverse polarity-- (see if this font is really courier ;) ) ###...### Track TTTTT O O ###...### Track (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Even more Wow!! for your buck!!! was Re: Woo Hoo!!!!! (part deux...) —David Koudys
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| | | | | In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, David Koudys wrote: <snip> (...) And here's 'more playing...' (URL) two pics, but fun ones... One of these pics shows how old my ccd in my digital camera is--all the 'blank' pixels. Eh, it still works and is now on (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Even more Wow!! for your buck!!! was Re: Woo Hoo!!!!! (part deux...) —Mario DeFacendis
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| | | | (...) An easy solution to this is to have two locomotives in the train, each tuned to the same DCC channel. If one loco loses communication, the other will push it through the bad spots... That probably why real trains have two locos, right? :) (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Even more Wow!! for your buck!!! was Re: Woo Hoo!!!!! (part deux...) —David Koudys
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| | | | (...) Going to try that tonite--I own only 4 loco motors, and 3 are now converted to DCC. Hopefully I'll get my hands on about 3-4 more motors and convert 'em. But tonight I'll run 2 motors on one engine on one DCC channel and test that. I think it (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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