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Re: A question about Insulation between tracks
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Date: 
Fri, 22 Jun 2001 08:22:44 GMT
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After I used successfully insulated tracks as below in my RCX Controlled Train
Projects, I found a little problem, the train has to be run in higher speed, or
it will be stop at insulated track.
                          |---|
+========O=====O===========-
-========O=====O===========+

Did you try to run train in lower speed (2-4) on insulated tracks as below?
                          |---|
+===========O==============-
-===========O==============+

Zhengrong
http://legochina.virtualave.net/MOCs/RCXTrains.html


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======= +

|----| is motor
=== is tracks
O     is insulation

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?

Zhengrong



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  A question about Insulation between tracks
 
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 (...) (24 years ago, 13-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)

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