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Re: Hypothetically speaking? the future of IR/RC trains
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:43:13 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Matthew J. Chiles mattchiles@gorge.net wrote:
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On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 01:43:11 GMT, you wrote:
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This leads me to my question; given the current IR RC train line what
changes do you see necessary for you to convert from 9v track to plastic
track and why?
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Again, I am someone who will never convert to the plain plastic, but I
see the IR system being much more useful if the battery/receiver is
unbundled from the baseplate.
Ideally, I would like to have the IR receiver unbundled from both
battery and baseplate. That way you could theoritically use the IR to
control your motor powered by 9V track, you could build IR/plastic
track engines and cars much more realistically, and you could even
easily integrate the IR system in other Lego applications such as a
small rail truck using a 9V battery, monorails, or even road based
busses and trucks - that would be a blast.
So for IR to be worthwhile for me to purchase, the reciever needs to
be un-bundled from the battery box setup.
-Matt :)
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actuly the ironic thing is lego is producing something like you described for
the 2007 lineup. the dinosar and grader have an ir motor controler with a
seperate motor and battery pac. the only down side is it’s uncompatable with the
old 9v system and the nxt system.
here’s a pic:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Tilius/2007/Technic-2007/8275.jpg
i do know what your really describing though since i made one:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=196840
ondrew
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| (...) Again, I am someone who will never convert to the plain plastic, but I see the IR system being much more useful if the battery/receiver is unbundled from the baseplate. Ideally, I would like to have the IR receiver unbundled from both battery (...) (17 years ago, 17-Feb-07, to lugnet.trains)
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