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Re: LDCC and Boosters
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 8 Jul 2003 00:10:27 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.
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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.
I was wondering if there is a DC component to the DCC signaling such that you
could actually draw the power from the track to power the decoder RCXs?
SteveB
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| (...) you (...) Yep, I just tried it: I fed the track power straight into the RCX 1.0 power input jack (and to the lamp brick "sensor" attached to sensor port 1). The switch motors do operate slower, probably because they're seeing something like 7V (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jul-03, to lugnet.trains)
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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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