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Re: 2012 Train sets? // Wishlist
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic
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Wed, 9 Nov 2011 23:00:10 GMT
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> What I would like to see most urgently is a slight software protocol
> modification for IR receiver and remote control for giving us 8 extra channels.
> I could imagine to mark both items as different by releasing them in a different
> housing color then. This should not be to costly for TLC, if they released that
> in any new technic set.
> This would allow to control more different trains and sidetrack items
> independently. I am running out of channels right now, although I am on my own.
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> Even better would be, if an expert could open the equipment and re-adjust them
> to be unique. No third party could take over the control on running equipment at
> any time (most critical at public shows).
> Has anyone ever done this or heard about someone doing this?
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> Leg Godt!
>
> Ben
x-posted to .technic
I thought this was possible with the existing protocol. I didn't really
understand the details but I thought the existing protocol allowed for a full 16
channels of which only eight were used presently.
And I thought you could get to them by sending the right IR pulses. Maybe
someone who can understand the protocol .pdf could explain in lay terms.
Tim
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| (...) I have not heard any rumors on 2012 products. But LEGO has supplied us with a huge amount of trains recently (and two of them aiming definitely at AFOLs!). So I have to agree with Tim, that we can not expect too much in 2012. Including the (...) (13 years ago, 9-Nov-11, to lugnet.trains)
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