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Re: Thoughts on Spy Photos of New Trains
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:01:39 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Steve Bliss wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, John Barnes wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Timothy Gould wrote:
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--SOMEWHAY SNIPPED THROUGHOUT--
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- It appears that the battery motor has metal flanges like the 9 volt motor. Probably good; will last longer than mere plastic.
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Maybe it is the old motor, or a slightly modified version. In some ways it
wouldn’t surprise me if they reused the existing manufacturing line.
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I am hoping it will be a modified version of the 9v motor. If it is the same
motor, then if it runs onto metal track, it’s battery will find itself
powering the track out through the wheels instead of getting power in
through them. (The modification would be to simply delete the wipers which
connect to the power from the wheel flanges.)
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I’m not really hoping, but it would be awesome if they modified the existing
motor to allow it to be powered by either battery or off the rails.
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The current 9v motor can be powered by rails or a battery box. Just plug a
battery box where the light brick would normally connect and turn it on. The
only thing is it will go backwards compared to normal power by the wheels.
However a polarity switch (or even turning the plug around the other way) will
fix that. While I am not a die hard train fan I still like the whole 9v
standard and hope that they are simply using the same motor with a new battery
box controller. (Turn off the battery box and stick the train on 9v track and
away you go.) This would actually make sense if, as TLC stated, they do not
intend to discontiune the 9v train system but have both, so that kids can
“graduate” to the the 9v trains. What better way than to have the cheaper
battery train sets you “already own” work on the more expensive 9v as well.
-Mike Petrucelli
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Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Thoughts on Spy Photos of New Trains
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| (...) Eureka, Mike! I think you have nailed it! The spy pics show metal wheels, suggesting that they are indeed still utilizing the 9 volt train motor. That side thingie I was concerned about now appears to be the sensor that gets the signal from (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Thoughts on Spy Photos of New Trains
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| (...) I'm not really hoping, but it would be awesome if they modified the existing motor to allow it to be powered by either battery or off the rails. The very best (IMO) would be like the trainmodders have done -- the power picked up from the rails (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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