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Re: Continous operation
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:42:02 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Andreas Stabno writes:
> > What are your thoughts about the effects on motors or train controllers of
> > continous or semi-continous operation?
SNIP
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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....
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> I think the micro motor and the power motor are even less sturdy than the 9V
> train motor.
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> Kind regards,
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> Ben
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> 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.
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 will only run for short times with a total of about 1 hour per day.
Andreas
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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. (...) (24 years ago, 9-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Continous operation
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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