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Re: Danish train show electronics
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 4 Oct 2006 23:30:02 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, William R. Ward wrote:
> Does anyone know what this little bit of electronics is for?
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2054369
> It's from a LEGO event recently held in Denmark. I found the link on Jan
> Beyer's Blog ( http://www.ilenn.com/blogs/janbeyer/ ) but there's a problem with
> that blog which makes it impossible to write comments.
Well, I wasn't there, and I'm no electrical engineer, but I'm going to take a
stab at guessing. It looks like in that picture that the two LEDs are getting
their power directly from the rails. In the picture before it in the gallery:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2054368
It looks like they all light up when power goes through the rails (the rail on
the left is lit, the rail to it's right is dark, and there's a blurry thing on
the left rail). My guess its some sort of fancy visual way of knowing which
track is powered at any given time.
But that's just a guess.
--Tony
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| (...) You guessed correct! These pics are from my rail-race-extreme layout, and the Led's are just for the looks. If a race starts, both tracks light up. One red, one yellow. Side-effect, very usefull in this case: the Led's reduce the amount of (...) (18 years ago, 5-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| Does anyone know what this little bit of electronics is for? (URL) from a LEGO event recently held in Denmark. I found the link on Jan Beyer's Blog ( (URL) ) but there's a problem with that blog which makes it impossible to write comments. (18 years ago, 4-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains)
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