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Re: An idea concerning the new RC trains and a new RCX
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:10:27 GMT
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Jason J Railton wrote:
> That might be a little expensive to put in a system that's supposed to reduce
> the entry price!
Depends. Infrared is very tricky for mobile systems, and a train out of
sight (behind houses, in a hunnel) is dead meat in tems of infrared
communication...
A simple (still reliable!) Bluetooth system should be in the same price
range as a reliable working Infrared system, but without the limitations.
> Still, an auxiliary output on the remote control train motor (for lights, horn
> or extra motor-driven uncoupler) would be a great gift to train builders.
They would be dumb not to do that. OTOH, they did stupid things before,
so we are not really save here.
Yours, Christian
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| (...) That just isn't true. Bluetooth units cost in the order of tens of dollars, and who knows how much R&D to set up. Simple infra-red remote control units, to give you on/off or varying control levels cost in the order of cents. Even full duplex (...) (19 years ago, 23-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) That might be a little expensive to put in a system that's supposed to reduce the entry price! Still, an auxiliary output on the remote control train motor (for lights, horn or extra motor-driven uncoupler) would be a great gift to train (...) (19 years ago, 23-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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