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Re: Home layouts (Re: Huge layout)
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 3 May 2001 21:36:50 GMT
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"Steve Chapple" <LEGOArches@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:GCrxBw.Mx2@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.trains, Frank Buiting writes:
> > ...I have uploaded my initial design at Brickshelf here
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=42545
> > ...Comments are welcome of course!
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> A nice layout, but why didn't you make it possible for trains
> to switch from one loop to the other - why the isolation?
The main reason is that I want to have multiple trains on the track and I'm
not sure what would happen if two transformers behave when accidently get
shortcircuited because the loops are connected.
I heard that some LTCs use multiple transformers to power the same layout,
so I might be overcautious but I'm not sure.
-Frank
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| (...) I was in charge of powering the train for the 3000+' attempt at PNLTC's G2K World Record attempt. We used 10 or 12 power supplies on a single very long track. As long as the polarity is set right, we detected no ill effects. The train speed (...) (23 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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