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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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Sat, 14 Feb 2004 15:41:31 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Gustavo Brinck wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Lester Witter wrote:
> > If you ar going to "sacrifice" a motor for the wheels, why not use its power
> > pickups.
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> Sometimes my english, plays against me.....
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> My idea was to use the metallic wheels of the motor in a standard boggie, for
> testing purposes, if this works, the following step was to make a copy of the
> wheels with a lathe, but Larry and Dean make me notice that the wheels are
> different. I never thought of using a motor box as source of energy for the
> cars because it is too expensive.
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> My next step, is to use the standard plastic wheels (from cars boggie) with a
> collar (ring) over this, I hope this works.
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> Keep you posted.
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> Gustav
Last year I built a tram and the power came from a 9V battery box (heavy, the
battery are quickly out...), and it is not very recommended to make circulate a
tram without control (just on/off) on a circuit with other trains. I realized a
replic of the small wheels in stainless steel. A spring wire collect the power
towards the engines. I can control the tram without problem.
see pictures: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=72339
see videos: (3.2Mo) http://sam.rotule.free.fr/seltz2004/P1250039c.MOV
(14.3Mo) http://sam.rotule.free.fr/seltz2004/P1250068.MOV
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