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Re: Speed regulator question
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Sun, 29 Jul 2001 22:00:34 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Adam Murtha writes:
I was hoping one of you train heads could answer a question I have, why do
some train sets like 4558 (and 10001 I assume) not come with a speed
regulator?  I assume that it would be to keep the cost down, and most people
who buy Lego trains would already have at least one speed regulator, but for
someone like me who plans on getting 10001 as their first train set, not
having a speed regulator is just a pain.

I think that much of it is that TLC recognizes (and certainly hopes) that folks
will buy more than one train set. If you got a speed regulator with EVERY
trainset, those of us who buy tons of train sets would be burried with them,
and even the kid who just gets a few train sets would probably end up with too
many. It's also a significant expense, these are not the cheap speed regulators
you see in HO train sets in TRU which are hardly more than a glorified wall
wart with a rheostat to control the output voltage.

Of course it would also be cool if TLC realized we don't all need a circle of
track in every train set...

Frank



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I was hoping one of you train heads could answer a question I have, why do some train sets like 4558 (and 10001 I assume) not come with a speed regulator? I assume that it would be to keep the cost down, and most people who buy Lego trains would (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)

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