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  Re: Automatic decoupler designs?
 
I wonder if we'll ever see Kadee couplers made specially for LEGO trains? (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
 
  Re: Automatic decoupler designs?
 
GMLTC had a design for uncoupling, and there have been others posting here speaking of this. Not much hard info is available on the GMLTC design in terms of pictures, but it uses horizontal prying, as you suggest. The idea of a switch engine with an (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
 
  Re: Greenberg Shows Newsletter
 
(...) The Maryland Agricultural Center in Gaithersburg, MD. Jeff (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego)
 
  Automatic decoupler designs?
 
LEGO train knuckles don't lend themselves to decoupling. Has anyone got a good design (either as part of a switch engine or fixed to the track) design for an automated separator? I'm close to an in-engine (but very ugly) solution which can pry a (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
 
  Re: RCX onboard timer and motor pulsing
 
(...) I was just experimenting with this a few days ago. An RCX using PWM does a far better job of driving the LEGO train motors than the simple variable voltage from the LEGO train control. You can make a train creep around just above stall speed (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)


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