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| What are your thoughts about the effects on motors or train controllers of continous or semi-continous operation? To clarify, if trains are run 10-12 hours each day for several months, would you expect damage to the motors or controller? (...) (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Torsten Wernecke has done lots of 'testing' while he ran 9V trains night and day in a window display. An old and used 9V motor in a 4564 engine with several (quite light!) waggons behind, survived half a year of permanent driving at ca half (...) (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) SNIP (...) Thanks for the help. I hear you saying that quality is not the same as it used to be, although the parts will still put up with significant use over half a year or so. I may give my operation more rest time between runs, so that it (...) (22 years ago, 9-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) [snip a lot] (...) My guess with the operational reliability of the 9V trains is a kind of more or less linear wear characteristics(*). The wear is depending upon load and time. If you use a train of doubled weight it will last only half time. (...) (22 years ago, 9-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) [snip] linear wear characteristics(*). The wear is depending upon load and time. (*) forgot to add a last comment: the wear is at least linear in time, but in case of load it could easiely be a sqare (or even cubic?) function: A waggon of (...) (22 years ago, 9-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) The GMLTC uses two motors on each locomotive, and we're usually running four to six pieces of rolling stock behind one locomotive. We try to run each train for an hour or so, then give them a break. We've completed toasted a few motors, and we (...) (22 years ago, 9-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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