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Re: Modified LEGO race train motor (it's a screamer)
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Tue, 2 Jul 2002 22:59:44 GMT
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I can go either way I guess. My first idea was to do the same as James and
modify the existing train motor with a new electric motor. I was also
playing around with the ideas of which both of you described here...I would
assume that powering the motor from the tracks whether it be in the train
"truck" or receiving power from that truck to power an electric motor
(confused yet?) would be in the same class as long as it followed the 50%
rule. No outside power source would be used.
If I really wanted to try something out in left field I could rig up a CO2
train.. When the power is applied, you could have a mechanism strike the
end of the cartridge...
-Rob
"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message
news:GyMz23.Et6@lugnet.com...
> Whoa. What YOU describe is even more radical.
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> My hypothetical is powered by the 9V supplied by the rails. It just uses
> some other sort of 9V motor, transmitting motion to the rails some other • way
> than a train motor body/gearing.
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> YOUR hypothetical is independently (but still electrically, so not in
> violation of the spirit of the "no flammables" rule) powered. The 9V rail
> input is just a signal or trigger input to let the main power unit know • when
> it's time to fire.
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> Cool! Perhaps two different classes, though.
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> My hypothetical is ultimately limited by how much power the controller can
> deliver (presumably if you sucked up enough juice to shut the controller
> down, you'd lose). Yours is not.
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| Whoa. What YOU describe is even more radical. My hypothetical is powered by the 9V supplied by the rails. It just uses some other sort of 9V motor, transmitting motion to the rails some other way than a train motor body/gearing. YOUR hypothetical is (...) (22 years ago, 2-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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