 | | Re: Yes, but what IS it????? [Pt. 5] —Jason J. Railton
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| | | (...) Ah, finally the penny (rather than other unsavoury matter) drops! So what old model rail trick do you have to do to the track to make it work in a neat and orderly fashion? (Good grief, it's like pulling teeth. Remind me not to try anything (...) (19 years ago, 5-May-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Yes, but what IS it????? [Pt. 5] —Ross Crawford
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| | | | (...) Seems to me it'd be handy to have an isolated section of track at each end, connected with a diode (opposite polarity at each end) so it stops nicely but there's probably other ways to do it. (...) You can't fool us, you really love it ;) (...) (19 years ago, 5-May-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Yes, but what IS it????? [Pt. 5] —John Barnes
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| | | | (...) That was exactly what I thought 'til I built one for our LUCNY layout. Turns out the diodes have to be the same way round :) So you only have to make one polarity of diode insulated track section. I use an RCX to simply reverse power every (...) (19 years ago, 5-May-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Yes, but what IS it????? [Pt. 5] —Brian Davis
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| | | | (...) Nifty. Do you have any pictures or diagrams of this (OK, it's a *really* simple diagram I'll admit)? (19 years ago, 5-May-06, to lugnet.trains)
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