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Re: Idea for a track power pickup for non motored trains...
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 10 Feb 2004 04:46:04 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Ben Fleskes wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Christopher Masi wrote:
> > Ben Fleskes wrote:
> > > In lugnet.trains, Dean Husby wrote: <snip>
> > > Ben Fleskes
> > > Big Ben Bricks LLC
> >
> > Gee, when I saw your name as a responder I was looking for some kind of
> > big announcement here :)
> >
> > Chris
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> I've thought about this and don't see any long term potential. Power pickup
> from tracks is one of the most challenging aspects of the model railroading. The
> lego solution is one of the best I've seen, LGB actually runs contacts on the
> track. There has to be a better way.
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> Perhaps somewhere down the road, somebody will figure out a wifi radio control
> unit. Put a battery and receiver in the train and you are done. There are so
> many advantages of not having to wory about connecting power to the track -
> especially when you do complicated layout. A wifi system could have all the
> advantages of DCC, but without the drawback of providing power through the
> rails.
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> Anyone out there with more wifi experience to know if this could come to be? If
> done a few brief searches on the web and haven't been able to find a wifi based
> radio control unit intended for the hobby market.
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> Thoughts?
There are wifi stuff already out. G scale commonly uses radio control.
The main issue is, of course, the battery... It's a pain in the butt...
DCC works very well. It seems able to buffer a small amount of power to reduce
brownouts by bad connections.
Model trains have many ways of pulling power from the track. We need to come up
with some way of doing this ourselves. We can not allow ourselves to be limited
because LEGO treats it's self as a child's toy while we see it as so much more.
Track power is here to stay so let's work on the issue and not complicate things
by trying to change everything. ;)
Dean
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