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Re: Super Chief Weight Issues
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lugnet.trains
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Date:
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Tue, 5 Mar 2002 00:21:00 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Ross Crawford writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> > A few random observations. Manfried is right, 3 motors will often give worse
> > performance than 2. And 4 can be correspondingly even worse, because of the
> > current supply limits of the speed regulator.
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> Indeed. My N class with 2 motorised bogies & the engine motor inside runs no
> better (grade-wise) than with 1 motorised bogie, and actually causes a single
> controller to cut out (I assume a heat switch) after an hour or 2 constant
> running.
Really??? I had never heard of a controller cutting out (it does have a heat
triggered overload sensor) with just one or two motors loading it REGARDLESS
of length of continuous running.
Wow.
I wonder why. What is your frequency in Oz? 50hz or 60hz ??? The voltage
should not matter since it's stepped down to the same input voltage by the
wall wart whether you start at 220 or 110. But I speculate (baseless
speculation except that I had 3 years of vocational electronics in high
school, most of which I've forgotten) that 50 hz makes for more work for the
capacitator to do and rougher waveforms than 60 hz... (the US is 110v and 60hz)
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| (...) Indeed. My N class with 2 motorised bogies & the engine motor inside runs no better (grade-wise) than with 1 motorised bogie, and actually causes a single controller to cut out (I assume a heat switch) after an hour or 2 constant running. Also (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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