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Re: A question about Insulation between tracks
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 14 Mar 2001 21:59:40 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Zhengrong Zang writes:
> My friends asked me a question about Insulation between tracks, I am not
> sure if it will be a problem. Base on some expert's idea, we can
> insulated tracks using adhesive tape as follow:
> |----|
> + ===========O======= -
> - ===========O======= +
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> |----| is motor
> === is tracks
> O is insulation
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> The problem is when motor is on the two parts of insulated tracks, and
> the current is opposite as above, does the short circuit happen? How can
> we avoid it?
Never allow it to happen. While for LEGO it's not a big deal, in regular MR,
it is, it can burn out power packs. Make sure you switch your isolated
segment in a way that it doesn't occur (you need an isolated segment which
is switchable, made by a PAIR of gaps spaced some distance apart, not just
one set of gaps)... make sure your isolated segment is long enough to span
the longest train you are likely to want to reverse (or at least the longest
locomotive lashup)
++Lar
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| (...) I have to had that your desing will not allow a train to move very far. Even if you do 2 gap like Larry write, your train moving from left to rigth, when it will go to the section of reverse polarity will simply start go backward until it (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| My friends asked me a question about Insulation between tracks, I am not sure if it will be a problem. Base on some expert's idea, we can insulated tracks using adhesive tape as follow: |----| + ===...===O======= - - ===...===O======= + |----| is (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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