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Re: Digital Controls
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 10 Oct 2001 03:52:04 GMT
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James Powell wrote:
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> > James, do you mean to say that you are actually running ~5 trains on
> > your LEGO layout? That you are actually using DCC successfully? I've
> > heard many people talk about it, but so far no one has posted pics and
> > "Look what I did"'s...
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> I've only tried 3 at once. I only have one throttle with 2 speed controls,
> therefore after 3 trains, it becomes somewhat harder to control the trains.
How many controllers can your system have at once?
> However, I have demo'd this at LLCa, it was on the PNLTC layout. Works fine,
> except that the thermal overload didn't like the 30+ C weather :) (That'd be 3
> trains, 2 DCC, one "conventional"- I only had 3 motors with DCC at the time)
How does that work? The conventional? Surely when you have the standard
one you can't run other trains right? Otherwise there would be no power
for the DCC trains?
What part of DCC heats up?
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> > I've wanted DCC for some time. It's so 'real'.
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> > Dean
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> If you come over to Victoria, LMK, and you are welcome to come and play :).
> (I'm ~1 hr outside of Victoria, out by Point-No-Point, and work mon-fri
> though...)
We just may have to do that! I've wanted to get into DCC for some time.
But don't want to take the plunge until I know the system I get will
work great...
Dean
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Dean Husby
LUGNET Member #320
TFM's LEGO Workshop - http://www.akasa.bc.ca/tfm
The Vancouver LEGO Club - http://www.akasa.bc.ca/vlc/
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| (...) With the system I have, up to 22 trains (so, 11 dual controllers active-or up to 22 single controllers active) (...) Yep, there is power. The DCC is sent out as a square wave AC pulse, with the first 1/10th or so containing the coded info, (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) I've only tried 3 at once. I only have one throttle with 2 speed controls, therefore after 3 trains, it becomes somewhat harder to control the trains. However, I have demo'd this at LLCa, it was on the PNLTC layout. Works fine, except that (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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