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Re: New Press Release about Power Function Trains
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Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:32:05 GMT
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Metal rails and metal wheels is a good solution. :) Those burned out motors
turn out to be a great way to pickup power from rails (when properly modified)
that can be rerouted to the battery box charging port. BTW there is some talk
about the Pf battery having some functionality in it that could...
1) if power is available on the batt box charging port
AND
2) if the charge of the battery is below a "low water" mark
THEN
3) cut power leading out of the batt box (and remember the power setting)
WAIT UNTIL
4) the battery charge is above a "high water" mark
THEN
5) allow power leading out of the batt box at last know power leveel
if you guys think this is a good idea please post here... they are reading it!
And I'll remind them too.
SteveB
In lugnet.trains, Frank Filz wrote:
> Rob Hendrix wrote:
> > We could connect linear contacts of undetermined length to a wall
> > transformer and put them inside the rails. Then, the train with the
> > battery could have something plugged into its charging jack that
> > would run along these contacts to charge the battery everytime it
> > went around the loop...
> > I may not have thought of that before someone else (I didn't check),
> > but I like it!
>
> It's been talked about before.
>
> The old 12v components might work here. From the 1970s era 12v, there is a
> brick with metal stud contacts that could be used for the pickup from the
> 12v power rails.
>
> Frank
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Message has 5 Replies:
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| (...) Here are my 2c on the entire thread thus far, I'm still concerned that the 4 wide battery is too wide to conceal in the hood of a 6 wide mode of a typical American road switcher (i.e., just about every American locomotive built since 1968). I (...) (17 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: New Press Release about Power Function Trains
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| (...) That sounds interesting, although thinking about it from the standpoint of robotics & robotic trains even more ideas are presenting themselves to me. I'm not sure how this would work with trains... if a discharging train hits a power section (...) (17 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: New Press Release about Power Function Trains
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| (...) Please do that, it seems like a VERY interesting idea! When I read it it was one of those "but of course, I should have thought of that myself!"-moments :) It should, though, be possible to have the possibility to manually control the train's (...) (17 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: New Press Release about Power Function Trains
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| (...) I'm intrigued by this. I did a similar experiment using a 8.4v NiCad Battery and a monorail train. Whenever the train was stopped at the station, some metal brushes would contact between the the battery and track side connections. Thus (...) (17 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: New Press Release about Power Function Trains
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| (...) Dear LEGO: Please don't screw up this new train system like you screwed up the color change. We need something that can run multiple trains (GMLTC has 7 operating loops on our layout.), something that can pull long / heavy trains, something (...) (17 years ago, 29-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains)
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