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Re: Broken Monorail Motor
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:45:03 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Cary Clark writes:
> The four car monorails have been run for eight hours straight and multiple
> days (on one battery) with no visible ill effects at train shows. The
> monorail surprisingly runs at exactly the same speed up and down hill. I use
> a regular battery, while Mike Walsh uses a rechargable; the regular
> battery-powered cars will catch up to the rechargable after a few loops --
> we've had some spectacular crashes that way.
I usually try to avoid the crashes... I'm thinking about trying to implement
a crude block system that keeps two cars from doing this. First, I have to
come up with a reliable motorized point!
In another post, Mike gave this link with a picture of your monorail:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=68339
I have a spacey monorail with a motor brick cover, but yours looks like it
gives really good coverage. Do you have any closeups of it? Or
instructions? And does it work for all normal track configs?
Thanks!
--
Tony Hafner
www.hafhead.com
www.pnltc.org
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| (...) Why? Don't you just need a way to stop the monorail under RCX control? That requires a reliable motorized reverser/stop control track it seems to me... (I have been tinkering but don't have a good design yet, the thing you pivot is very stiff (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| In lugnet.trains, Tony Hafner writes: ... (...) ... Here's some pictures of the cover; let me know if it's not clear enough: (URL) train runs fine forwards and backwards. As Mike Walsh remembers, running backwards, it can't push closed a switching (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Broken Monorail Motor
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| In lugnet.trains, Tony Hafner writes: ... (...) The four car monorails have been run for eight hours straight and multiple days (on one battery) with no visible ill effects at train shows. The monorail surprisingly runs at exactly the same speed up (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains)
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