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This is a low structure, fun loving kind of group. I've been hanging with them just about every Thursday for a few weeks now and they're great. I'm happy to say that I built them a 4 bay sanding tower for the new engine service module under (...) (26 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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A new group of LEGO train fanatics are organizing the "Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club". Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the club currently has a 13' x 15' layout built entirely from Lego bricks. We have approximately 70 pieces of custom rolling (...) (26 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Same suggestion about BAR CODE
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VEGA wrote in message ... (...) very (...) is a (...) possible (...) I think you mean the dice. It stands for a random amount of time. Eric (26 years ago, 10-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | R: Same suggestion about BAR CODE
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Gentlemen please give me a little answer about this my problems I will be very happy many tanks As you know in the table were it is possible to program the Bar code there is a cube in the part where there are the time, I do not understand what it is (...) (26 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Installing Track Designer
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(...) I'll echo the thanks here too - Thank you Matthew for this excellent time saving program. It's brought my LEGO train world into my computer world with ease and precision. I saw the registry.tdl problem myself, but corrected it by changing the (...) (26 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Original wagon designs
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(...) <tiny voice> oh. well, duh! Silly me. </tiny voice> Thanks. (26 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Installing Track Designer
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I had this problem too. I am not sure what fixed it except that I uninstalled the program and reinstalled it somewhere else. I am not an expert in these matters, but my experience would indicate there is a slight problem in the manner that the (...) (26 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Electrical Things (was: Railroad Dilemma)
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(...) But (pedant mode on) your wording in the post above does make that implication. ;-) (...) No fair. :-) That's a white box test. Much more fun to drag out a scope. OK, I give. (26 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | PNLTC web update
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Hi All, There are new pictures on our web site www.PNLTC.org of the last GATS (Great American Train Show) we did in Portland, OR on Feb 20 -21. The show gallery is found on the Gallery page. There is about 100 pics. The Galery page layout is a bit (...) (26 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Electrical Things (was: Railroad Dilemma)
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(...) interested. (...) True, I used a voltmeter to generate the data on that page, but I didn't claim anywhere on my page or previous posts that that was what I used to prove it is not PWM. Proof is obtained by opening the controller, getting the (...) (26 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Electrical Things (was: Railroad Dilemma)
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(...) it on a scope. If we have a PWM voltage with a 50% duty cycle and 10 millisecond period An analog voltmeter will report the average voltage of 4.5, not 5 milliseconds DC 9V and 5 milliseconds DC 0V because it does not have the timescale (...) (26 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Installing Track Designer
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Since I released Track Designer 2.0 I've had a number of people email me saying that after they install it says it can't find the registry.tdl file. Why is this? I've never got to the bottom of it and despite requests no one has ever told me if (...) (26 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Electrical Things (was: Railroad Dilemma)
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(...) That is because there is a diode to protect from reverse voltage and the voltage drop is about 0.3V (...) The maximum current is about 0.7A MAXIMUM ( maximum voltage and whell not turning) with one controller (...) the internal resistance will (...) (26 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Electrical Things (was: Railroad Dilemma)
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(...) So would I, because it's not true! As I've said this many times, it's plain and simple variable DC voltage with 6 steps. Look at... (URL) (...) Also not true. The resistance of the motor is not enough to determine the current it will draw (...) (26 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <36E3BEC5.743B03BE@v...er.net>... (...) Looking at the pictures, it appears that all three covers are slideable (sp) . There are handles on both end covers. George (26 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Electrical Things (was: Railroad Dilemma)
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(...) If you have any URL's where people have reported on this, I'd be interested. (...) Yep - it was ohmmeter across unpowered moter. I did think about directly measuring the current with the motor running, but my multimeter has a maximum current (...) (26 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm not sure I agree that the voltage is variable. People have reported (via oscilloscope analysis) that it's pulse width modulated 9V instead. This will read on an analog meter like a low voltage, because it's taking the average across time. (...) (26 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Railroad Dilemma
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How have you got this working? I sat down and had a long think about it last night, and played checked out my points with a multimeter to see which circuits get broken when you move the points, and I can see that you need to cut the rail on both (...) (26 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Electrical Things (was: Railroad Dilemma)
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I finally got round to having a play with my controllers and my multimeter. PUTTING TWO CONTROLLERS ON THE SAME TRACK ---...--- Firstly, apologies to Ben, who suggested if you connect two controllers to the same track, then they'd short only if the (...) (26 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Original wagon designs
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(...) kind that are taken off with a crane. The challenge with these is that the covers get lost or mixed up. The covers usually have the RR company logo on them and tracking numbers as well. Occasionally, I have seen a gon with one cover on it (...) (26 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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