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(...) nod, it's pretty cool :) we still need to set up automatic points... that's the only holdback from a fully sit-down-while-runni...the-layout setup :) (...) Our DCC is all Tom Cook's work - and he explains how to modify the engins on his site, (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Wow! I'm getting excited again. What I have plans to do is to use an electro magnet for the shunter's coupler. Then I can swing over and grab a car and drop it where I want. It would be FANTASTIC to show this off at shows. With 5 people (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) all of the WAMALUG/WAMALTC shows in the past year or so have been using dcc... sometimes running 5 trains at once (which is what Tom's DCC is capable of dealing with, I think). Aside from being very confusing to control, it's a whole lot of (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) With the system I have, up to 22 trains (so, 11 dual controllers active-or up to 22 single controllers active) (...) Yep, there is power. The DCC is sent out as a square wave AC pulse, with the first 1/10th or so containing the coded info, (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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In lugnet.trains, Tobias Möller writes: various snips (...) Tobias Brad Justus told everybody at BrickFest 2001 Lego Direct Q&A, that the club car would be the same, however, the Metroliner had 2 pieces changed due to not having the molds available (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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You can find the instructions in my page, this switch point had been controlled by RCA in my projects. You don't need to modify any thing, just take out the yellow element in switch point. Zhengrong (...) -- RCA Controlled LEG Train Projects (URL) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.pt)
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(...) How many controllers can your system have at once? (...) How does that work? The conventional? Surely when you have the standard one you can't run other trains right? Otherwise there would be no power for the DCC trains? What part of DCC heats (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I've only tried 3 at once. I only have one throttle with 2 speed controls, therefore after 3 trains, it becomes somewhat harder to control the trains. However, I have demo'd this at LLCa, it was on the PNLTC layout. Works fine, except that (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) James, do you mean to say that you are actually running ~5 trains on your LEGO layout? That you are actually using DCC successfully? I've heard many people talk about it, but so far no one has posted pics and "Look what I did"'s... I've wanted (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.pt)
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(...) Holy SNOT! That's amazing. So is Carl's for that matter... but yours is pure, eh? I LOVE that inversion technique with the technic 1x4 roundend, it's crisp. (...) I have used the brick hinge in the past for 90 degree rotation and find it less (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) There are ways to do that, but I've had some trouble. The NEWEST switches from LEGO are so hard to switch you feel you almost have to break them to have it switch. The modification changes all that. If you DO decide to modify your switch, use (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.pt)
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First, I would like to sincerely compliment Carlegler for his oval window design in his ICE train set. Please view it here: (URL) discusses Carlegler's oval window briefly referring to correspondence in the German forum in this previous posting: (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Yes, I got my ship confirmation notice email yesterday so I should have mine soon. I don't know how some people say there's is delayed and other's get there set the same day. Adam (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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In lugnet.loc.pt, Dean Husby writes: (snipped) (...) I don't feel too comfortable cutting up my LEGO, but I have experienced the difficulty of moving them in the past. Can't I use some sort of gear that "forces" the swith, even if it works only at (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thank you very much for the link, Zhengrong. I apreciate your work with robotics, even though I couldn't fully understand it (sorry, I'm not an expert in electronics). It seems to me you have a FULLY automated design, almost universally (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) And here are the pictures from the show. (URL) GFLTC took the Best of Show ribbon and individual prizes went to Robin's layout for 1st in operating novelty and to Scott Holcomb's layout for 2nd in operating novelty. The was our biggest layout (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.us.gflug, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.fl)
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(...) Thank you for the link, Robert. Very useful indeed. Pedro (23 years ago, 9-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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I just got off the phone with Consumer Services at Lego (1-800-835-4386) about the two parts errors in the 10001 Metroliner. (See (URL) ) When you call, you will be transfered from the sales reps to a Consumer Services rep. I mentioned that I had (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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I'm in the UK, but from what I'm reading now, they're arriving all over the place. "Adam Murtha" <adammurtha@home.com> wrote in message news:GKwn8G.MtC@lugnet.com... (...) arrived (...) about (...) know (...) from a (...) large (...) at (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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"Tobias Möller" <tobias.moller@telia.com> wrote in message news:3BC3231E.EC7252...lia.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] I was unable to find the original article but I seem to recall a statement (it might have been from someone who paraphrased Brad (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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