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Re: Speed regulator question
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lugnet.trains
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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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