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Re: Mindstorms on RailRoad?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains
Date: 
Thu, 27 Dec 2001 22:08:53 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, John Gerlach writes:
In lugnet.robotics, Larry Pieniazek writes:
<snip>

Unfortunately this means you can only have one robot per electrically
connected section of track, as the power is flowing out the motor unit's
wheels and onto the rails.

++Lar

Why not use the old 4.5volt rails?  (Presuming Steve has or can get some...)

Yup, that would work too. Sometimes good deals can be had on these if you
keep your eyes open. Especially on the blue ones if you're not fussy about
color.


Or, as for driving it, could the setup from the 4533 'track snow remover'
http://guide.lugnet.com/set/4533
be used by driving the middle axle?

That seems to work a lot better for picking motion up from the rails than
for moving the vehicle itself, at least in my experiments with it.

I just checked BrickShelf, unfortunately the instructions are not there...

Too recent a set, I think.



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  Re: Mindstorms on RailRoad?
 
In lugnet.robotics, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snip> (...) Why not use the old 4.5volt rails? (Presuming Steve has or can get some...) Or, as for driving it, could the setup from the 4533 'track snow remover' (URL) used by driving the middle axle? I (...) (23 years ago, 27-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains)

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