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Re: Continous operation
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:43:55 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Andreas Stabno writes:
> What are your thoughts about the effects on motors or train controllers of
> continous or semi-continous operation?
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> To clarify, if trains are run 10-12 hours each day for several months, would
> you expect damage to the motors or controller? Alternatively in a
> semi-continous state, if the trains are run for a few minutes at a time and
> then rest before starting again, would you expect less strain on the parts?
> I'd also be curious about the same stress on 9-volt micro motors and mini
> motors.
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> What do you think?
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> Andreas Stabno
> http://www.lugnet.com/~19/
Hi Andreas,
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 speed. At the end you needed more voltage to hold the
speed. The wheel sets of the waggons have worn out.
New motors and newer wheelsets (Set 3225 and newer ones) have not even lasted
for more than 4 month. TLCs latest wheel sets have ca. 10%...25% ones among
them with really poor running behaviour. If you want to do long time running
check the wheel sets before.
In a test run with ramps and inclinations a new 9V motor survived for only a
quite short period. Slippage killed the rubber bands of the 9V motor soon....
I think the micro motor and the power motor are even less sturdy than the 9V
train motor.
Kind regards,
Ben
P.s.: The bogies of a 4564/10020 like engine show heavy wear too: if the train
drives only an oval, the wear will not allow you to drive the train in the
different curve direction after some weeks. There is a sharp offset that
blocks the bogie in that spinning direction then: looks funny to see a mix of
red + black partikels (in case of a 4565 engine). Some motors last as long as
the top will do: in the end you might have a hole to look inside the motor
from the top... And the baseplate of the engine is damaged as well then.
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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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| 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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