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Re: More Questions from Another Train Newbie
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Mon, 22 Nov 1999 18:50:44 GMT
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Martin Legault <mlegault@nortelnetworks.com> wrote in message
news:FLM44y.I9H@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.trains, John Gerlach writes:
> > In lugnet.trains, Frank Filz writes:
> > > Martin Legault wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I would say that it is a fuse, never tested it but by the weigth it is • to
> > > > light to be a coil and also because a capacitor would be better help • than a
> > > > coil.
> > > 
> > > More likely a thermal, self resetting, circuit breaker like the
> > > controller and motors apparently have.
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Frank Filz
> > If you open one up, you'll see it's nothing that fancy.  A loop of metal,
> > perhaps magnetic, that the 9volt wire wraps around once.  I'm guessing it • has
> > something to do with RF interference, but that's a complete guess...
> > 
> > John1, GMLTC
> 
> Look like it is a coil by the description. Do you have a picture of it?
> 
> Martin


It is a ferrite core used as a RF choke.



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  Re: More Questions from Another Train Newbie
 
(...) Look like it is a coil by the description. Do you have a picture of it? Martin (27 years ago, 22-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)

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