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Re: All plastic track
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:45:43 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Brian Davis wrote:
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OK, here’s two I was *dying* to ask at BrickFest, but didn’t want to take
time away from the more “serious” questioners (i.e. - I’m not first & formost
a train type).
(1) What is the battery life goal?
(2) Is the IR system potential compatable with the RCX? I’m already
drooling at the idea of an RCX-controled train and stations, *without* having
to fit the RCX into the train (and to all the folks about to suggest LDCC,
current versions gut the firmware too much - it seems to be a RC system, not
a computer driving a train system).
(3) How many addressible features could such a train have (Fwd/Rev
certainly, but throttle? Lights? Horns?)
OK, that’s three. I can programm, but I can’t count. Personally, I also
came away from BrickFest with a positive view of where the 9V system is
headed, not negative. Pure and simple, more kids “gatewayed” into L-gauge
means more potential customers for “adult” L-gauge setups.
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I have some questions, too. I’m not a huge train person -- I own only two train
sets -- but I’m aware of the 9V system’s limitations.
Would a 9V train have enough momentum to pass over a single section of plastic
track? I’m thinking that the plastic track could be useful for separating
different sections of a layout as far as power goes. A really slow train
wouldn’t make it, but a really slow train with a motor at both ends would. You’d
have to make sure the track polarity is the same on either side of the plastic
track section, of course.
In that same vein, would a single plastic section be helpful in making reversing
loops? Doing this currently requires hacking the rails to insulate part of the
track. If I understand the train community’s feelings, this alone would make the
plastic tracks extremely useful.
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| (...) Oooh!!! That would be nifty. Electrical blocks. Also could be used for cheap sidings, if the price is right. (...) Doesn't that not work because of the polarity switching? Like you say above. Or would you isolate it twice, so that you have one (...) (19 years ago, 18-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Actually, hacking the rails to electrically insulate the track only requires sandwiching a tiny slip of paper in between the two sections you want isolated from each other. Tear away the excess, and mark the spot with a red plate (so you can (...) (19 years ago, 18-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) OK, here's two I was *dying* to ask at BrickFest, but didn't want to take time away from the more "serious" questioners (i.e. - I'm not first & formost a train type). (1) What is the battery life goal? (2) Is the IR system potential compatable (...) (19 years ago, 16-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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