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(...) You can challenge it all you want. But you're not arguing with ME, you're arguing with thermodynamics. (unless you can show I've misapplied it) (...) and I bet their operating temperature differential is higher, too, being stationary. That's (...) (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Just take a look at the instruction of 2126. It works with the same design, that you should use. (URL) Regards, Ben My homepage: (URL) no. 1 building contest: (URL) (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi Despite the fact that I play with trains all day at work I have finally given up resisting the lure of Lego ones. I have just taken delivery of a Small My Own Train and a wagon plate kit so I can look into how it all works and I have a few (...) (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'd take serious challenge to that statement. The best steam only power plants are in the 45-47% range of effiency (input to output). Mind you, they DON"T MOVE!... When done correctly, steam has a cycle effiency of ~12% on the rails (I can get (...) (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) 2x6 plate with the middle 8 studs removed, and pressed onto the track lengthwise. Then, an RCX hidden in a signal box (switching house, or whatever you call them in the US) controlled a barrier crossing. Hands up all those at Thames Valley (...) (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I used Reed sensors in the last train show the VLC did. They worked well. I had 3 of them in parallel for the trolley track. It would move between 3 stations and stop at each one for a time. (URL) also used a reed in a little building to (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) lol I don't think that that was Lar's intention at all, Rick. I think his troll is worse than his byte... (ouch, even *I* grimaced at that one:-) ++John (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Venemous??? Hardly! (...) I don't think it did! Jason's slagging me right back. (...) Plenty cool. Don't get me wrong, steam is neat. Steam engines are impressive. It's just not practical. It can never convert as high a percentage of input (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks for the compliments, Larry and Tim. I'll do some more pictures when I get some time. I've got a cheap camera, so I need to experiment to get good lighting. Tim's right, it's hard to capture the character of trains like this through (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) many (...) to one (...) the train, (...) You can use the Scout to detect trains also with cheap custom made reed sensors, they behave like passive sensors. IMO they're ideal to detect trains: the magnetic couplings of the cars are strong (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) With the Scout (or RCX for that matter) you can use a phototransistor as a light sensor for the scout. Put a light or IF emitter on the other side of the track and it can detect a break in the light. You can count cars or anything you want. It (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yikes! Did you mean for your response to Jason's joke to sound so venomous? I didn't think the discussion was intended to upset. Also, for die-hard, steam fans, steam may have lost, but it's far from dead, and who knows, it seems it could (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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One Addition for Scout, you can use a fiber cable to connect Scout and a micro-scout, let that micro-scout to control a switch point, so you can get three output ports from Scout. Then if you can put Scout on a special position with a external light (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.scout)
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You can use Scout to control trains like using RCX, I had tested. The difference is that Scout only can use passive light sensor, then they only have two input and output ports, then you only can use NQC, not legOS. When you write NQC, you can use (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics)
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WUNDERBAR!!! Und ihr müssen so viel Spass haben. Ich bin einversüchtig. I'll invite you all when I'll organize a show in the Maritimes... Congratulations from Canada Freundlichen Grüssen, Jean-Marc (...) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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Hello all, Thanks for your help. I am back with more questions. First, is it possible to use scout computers like the one in this auction (URL) control trains instead of the RCXs? Is looks like they're a lot cheaper, but are they not as good as the (...) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) <snip> (...) I'd actually say that WAS a brawny beefy loco (i know thats not what you mean larry!) I think that british locos (both steam and diesel/electric) are harder to reproduduce because they have all their pipework etc hidden away, thus (...) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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This is slightly off topic, but... when PNLTC was at LEGOLAND this summer, I remember one of the members mentioning staying at a camp ground near Camp Pendleton. Can this person please contact me? I am trying to track down the information about this (...) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Pictures of FGLTC train show in Muelheim/Germany (correct link)
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(...) (URL) have just been parallel in the Lego®chat at 1000steine and have provided the prelimenary link to the girl, who was to be seen in that picture... Sorry for mixing up the links.) Ben (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) a (...) can't Thanks for that big praise, but I fear you are exaggerating a little: maybe it has been the best European train show ever, but I think we need another one or two years to reach the level of GMLTC or PNLTC shows..... We have had (...) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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