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Re: Externally powered Monorail
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lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.space
Date: 
Mon, 8 Nov 2010 20:32:29 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.obb, David Eaton wrote:
   In lugnet.org.ca.obb, David Koudys wrote:
   Externally powered monorail!!

Woah, that’s pretty cool! How does it handle any start/stops that it encounters? I assume that the switch on the motor wasn’t actually disengaged, so it it needs to be out to the left or right in order to work?

DaveE

Haven’t put a start/stop in, and they were out of the plan anyway....

But I’ll try copper taping one soon--there’s somethign niggling in my mind that if you left the transformer on full in one direction, that the monorail switch would work as it always does--stopping if the switch is centered, and reversing if it’s opposite.

I also want to try a heavy/long monorail train like i use in our shows to see if it runs any better.

Dave K



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  Re: Externally powered Monorail
 
(...) I did forget to mentinon ,though you can see it in the pics on Flickr, that the brushes for the power pickup almost make the monorail run in 1 direction only-just like the slot cars... if the monorail runs the other way, the brushes will get (...) (14 years ago, 8-Nov-10, to lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.space, FTX)

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(...) Woah, that's pretty cool! How does it handle any start/stops that it encounters? I assume that the switch on the motor wasn't actually disengaged, so it it needs to be out to the left or right in order to work? DaveE (14 years ago, 8-Nov-10, to lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.space, FTX)

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