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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 20:08:09 GMT
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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?
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> There are wifi stuff already out. G scale commonly uses radio control.
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> The main issue is, of course, the battery... It's a pain in the butt...
I've used a 27 mHz hobby setup powering a 4.5V motor before. It worked quite
well, for about 1 hour at a time. However, it required 10 N cell batteries to
power it.
It fit into a battery car that had the guts cut out of it (I have a spare...).
I think that there are better possible solutions than how I hacked that
together, but it did work.
I prefer DCC to radio, because it removes the batteries from the equation.
Especially given that I model in more than just Lego. So, for me I would still
have to have DCC equippped stuff- a KoF III is a very small loco in HO scale.
(It's a bit smaller than a 100HP sentinel in OO, but not much...)
James
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