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Well,
Some Totally Awesome Stupendous Guy by the name of Mark posted the other
day talking about getting an RCX to be the DCC for train layouts...
I can throw around a soldering iron with the best of em so I went up to my local
hobby shop, picked me up three (3) of these Digital Plus LE0511W micro decoders,
and threw as of this time 2 into LEGO train motors.
Then I throw a small loop together, and d/l the TASG firmware to the RCX.
Besides the neat-o factor of seeing the RCX display words ‘n stuff, I proceeded
on.
Connected the RCX to the track, tried to figure out how to set my motors to
different Loco #’s (still working on that)
But preliminary results are astounding--controlling the motor via remote,
forward and backwards--this is soooo sweet.
Anyway, pics to come (maybe) on my conversion process...
Mark, I just want to say, Wow! This is awesome work!
A few points--is the RCX suppose to quietly hum when it’s running the track?
It’s very faint but it’s definitly humming...
The last time I looked at DCC, they were talking about the track layout being
‘on’ all the time, so that 1 non-modified motor could also run on the track--I
put my non-modified motor on the track and it just sits there--humming. Can a
LEGO speed reg also be connected up to the same track with the RCXDCC to control
non-modified LEGO motors, or is that a bad thing?
Anyway, very nicely done Mark. This is great stuff!
Dave K
for Iain-- ;)
Sparky’s Space--Where Sparky
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| In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, David Koudys wrote: <snip> (...) Well, that's 3 motors. That's all the microcontrollers I purchased. I only have 4 motors anyway... Might have to work that thing out with Jeff E for more. Let me just say, I just (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| Thanks for the nice comments, Dave. (...) track? (...) Yes, the humming is "normal" - my sample base being two RCXs. :-) Sorta reminds me of that buzzing you hear around high voltage power lines. (...) being (...) track--I (...) Can a (...) control (...) (21 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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