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Re: Apathy? (was: WAMALUG's GATS Layout was a huge success!)
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Thu, 2 Mar 2000 14:36:08 GMT
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Hi Mike,


Mike Poindexter wrote:
How many different trains can be run before addressing and/or power drain
problems occur?

We had five trains and six(maybe seven) moters running on the layout
without
any significant problems.  Our DCC system could only support five
addresses.

How are multiple motors on one loco (or 2 DCC enabled locos on one train)
handled?  Do they share the same address (not sure if that is the proper
term) or is it even possible?

My GP-35 had two moters attached to it, both assigned to the same address.
One of the metroliners had two seperate engines assigned the same address.

Can you change that address easily (to allow 2 or more motors to accept the
same commands)?

Yes, we have a 'setup track' where we assign address to engines.  This
requires
all trains in the system to be stopped.  Tom can explain this in more
detail.

Is there the option to send a DCC command to turn on the power plate section
of the motor to operate other things, like moving people or rotate a
searchlight?

yes, all of lighted engines were set up this way.

I actually haven't had much time to look at the pictures of the Wamalug
set-up.  I have only gone through about half of them.


We are a little over-zealous on our photography aren't we :)

-chris



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  Re: Apathy? (was: WAMALUG's GATS Layout was a huge success!)
 
I attempted to add some info to Chris' comments. "Christopher Tracey" <ctracey@wamalug.org> wrote in message news:38BE7C58.C2B336...lug.org... (...) drain (...) Technical we could have run 10 trains, but it only has 5 throttles, so you have to (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.trains)
  Re: Apathy? (was: WAMALUG's GATS Layout was a huge success!)
 
I attempted to add some info to Chris' comments. "Christopher Tracey" <ctracey@wamalug.org> wrote in message news:38BE7C58.C2B336...lug.org... (...) drain (...) Technically we could have run 10 trains, but it only has 5 throttles, so you have to (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.trains)

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  Re: Apathy? (was: WAMALUG's GATS Layout was a huge success!)
 
Actually, I had numerous questions about the DCC setup, but I saw in a post that some information was going to be posted about it, so I held my questions until it was posted, but here goes: How much labor (time) is required to convert a Lego Train (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)

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