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Re: LDCC and Boosters
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 4 Jul 2003 04:52:18 GMT
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This is great. I have one question. I assume that the DCC stationary
decoder does need to be powdered and it can be powered by either
batteries or AC/DC 9 volt adapator.
Have you thought about using a soundtraxx decoder to add sound to the
engines and can this be programmed along with a headlight at the same
time?
Brad Shy
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 02:27:55 GMT, "Mark Riley" <markril@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Ok! Here it is:
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> http://home.surewest.net/markril/lego/dcc/beta.html
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> Cheers,
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> Mark
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> "Brian B. Alano" <throwaway@insightbb.com> wrote in message
> news:HHFAID.23LF@lugnet.com...
> >
> >
> > Mark Riley wrote:
> > > Hi Brian,
> > >
> > > but currently I don't have
> > > any place for a permanent layout.
> > Yeah, somehow the rug in my living room doesn't make the most stable track
> > substrate :)
> >
> > > I've added a lot of features and the main
> > > thing is getting it all documented.
> > Oooh something I'm good at! I'd be thrilled if I could make a contribution • by
> > helping with the documentation.
> >
> > > I'll put up some "beta" code
> > > with minimal doc in the next day or two.
> > Argh! And I'll be painting at my sister-in-law's all weekend!
> >
> > > > This new code supports a special set of IR commands that
> > > allow you to control the train speed, track power, decoder
> > > functions FL through F4, turnout position, etc... The transport
> > > layer for the IR commands can be either the standard RCX
> > > packet format or LNP. There's also some demo programs for
> > > controlling LDCC from another RCX - one in NQC using RCX
> > > packet format and the other in BrickOS using LNP. Those
> > > should help in writing a PC based program.
> > Jaw drops. Eyes bug. I drool.
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>
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| (...) Yes, that's correct, the decoder RCX still needs to be powered, but it doesn't have to be AC, you can use batteries since the switches aren't drawing lots of continuous power. (...) That would be great. They're not cheap, though. The ones my (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jul-03, to lugnet.trains)
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