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Still loading and after moderation are: Alpine express modifications (URL) (lego version of Stonehenge) (URL) (my first bridge attempt) (URL) wall (why should humans have all the fun) (URL) (Fire trucks based on the unimog truck) (URL) is a deep (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) with (...) IR (...) locos. (...) Whoops, I meant to comment about this, too. LDCC responds to the message 1, 2 & 3 buttons from the remote. The remote uses LASM opcode 0xD2 to send these messages. However, there is another opcode, 0xF7, that (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Is there a way with the standard firmware to receive and process arbitrary packets, even those wrapped in the standard Lego IR protocol (as LDCCIRP is)? I'm thinking you may need to use BrickOS for this application. (...) include: (...) list (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I was thinking that one could make the seal with a thin foam gasket to allow air to still move somewhat freely (...) I was thinking of this as well...just a matter of finding such an item. (...) Sounds good to me! I did some testing on my (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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Has anyone seen this? (URL) don't know if the author is aware of LEGO trains, so I've written him and pointed him here. It looks like the library might be configurable to work with LEGO geometry but I don't have time to investigate. Amy (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Getting Started With Lego Trains - Jake's Book
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Shorter URL: (URL) Best regards, /Tobbe (URL) (remove SPAM when e-mailing) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.publish, lugnet.books)
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(...) To Aaron, Great MOC's , I really like the Santa fe . It just needs some stickers ! I one day hope to come up to Queensland for one of the train meetings. Have you seen some of the trains that I have built ? Or Ross's crains. There on the MUGS (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: DCC slowing?
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I wonder if this is a caused by low track voltage? The DCC decoder does not put a steady voltage to the motor but rather pulses the motor with the duration of the pulses increasing for increasing speed. Although the motors are no doubt vulnerable to (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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I am contemplating how to integrate control of a roundhouse roundtable with control of trains using LDCC (URL). Currently the roundtable software is in NQC on an RCX and is controlled by IR messages 1, 2 and 3, which can be generated by the LEGO (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.org.us.indylug, lugnet.trains)
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| | Full Throttle and WINE
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Just wanted to report that I loaded Full Throttle 1.00 (URL) in RedHat Linux 8.x using WINE version 20020605-2, and it loaded just fine and appeared to send IR commands through COM1 (don't have a RCX with LDCC at the moment to make sure). The only (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains) !
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Oh oh, waiting to see the fire trucks! Josh (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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"Aaron Coghill" <coghilla@austarnet.com.au> wrote in message news:HK5H6y.oEM@lugnet.com... (...) just a (...) of my (...) moderated so (...) Thanks for posting your work. The train crane is my favorite so far. Your work is very pleasing. Looking (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Getting Started With Lego Trains - Jake's Book
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Searching through Amazon last night, I stumbled across something very insteresting... Enter "Lego Trains" into the Amazon search tool and you get a hit on Jake McKee's new book! Getting Started with Lego Trains by Jacob H. McKee paperback, 128 pages (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.publish, lugnet.books) !
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Hi all, I've been very quiet for the last year or so. I've been around just a bit quiet. I have building stuff and over the last week been taking pics of my creations, and am currently posting them to brickshelf. Posted and moderated so far are: (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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(...) a (...) Indeed, you should see the way my 5 year old liked to tug the wires off the motors and battery boxes - good thing they use heavy cable and a strain relief! He knows better now. :-) Mark (21 years ago, 23-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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<SNIP> (...) Hi Chris and all others, If you open a Lego train motor, you'll find there 3 electrical components in it. First, and largest part, is the motor itself, second is a 'black cilindrical' piece witch is placed in parallel with the motor (...) (21 years ago, 23-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hmmmm not sure, never tried this. Possibly remove the existing wires, and try to fit 4 thinner wires out where the 2 currently exit. The standard wire is probably heavier than necessary, another case of LEGO over-engineering (in a good way!). (...) (21 years ago, 23-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) During the DCC conversion described by Tom Cook, there is some kind of semiconductor that gets removed from the train motor. I wonder if this component is somehow responsible for preventing excessive current in the motor windings? Judging from (...) (21 years ago, 23-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Worn out Train wheels?
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(...) Hello, To all train builders ! Ok, So we have had a fare bit of a talk about 9v train wheels, and their problems. But I have a few 12v wheels and 7750 wheels that I like to run on 9v track.Do any of you know how to make 12v wheels go better ? (...) (21 years ago, 23-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.lucny)
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The last time my trains were run (at BrickFest) I experienced no end of troubles with wheelsets that had all been used before with no apparent problems. Yes, some of them are the newer super-friction specials but at the time they were installed on (...) (21 years ago, 23-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.lucny)
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