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Re: DCC TRAIN w/ MS & VLL
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lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto
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Wed, 16 May 2001 17:33:05 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Jeff Elliott writes:
> I think the problem with the regular lamp is that it doesn't turn
> off fast enough - it takes time to cool down. You can overcome this
> by signalling slower... but then the train goes farther :(
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> Objective: talk to the MS with high reliability while minimizing
> the distance the train moves.
That's a pretty cool idea, but I suspect by the time it's perfected, we'll
be on DCC. In fact, we could probably go DCC for train1 just for the shunt
yard and iso the shunt yard alone from the rest of the power blocks, which
need isolation anyways.
Calum
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 | | Re: DCC TRAIN w/ MS & VLL
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| Hey Chris, I didn't mean to imply I couldn't *ever* get it to work, just only at full power. If you remove the stops, the train goes 2 or 3 feet in 1 message. I'm trying to overcome *that* problem :) I think the problem with the regular lamp is that (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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