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Re: New Press Release about Power Function Trains
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Date: 
Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:19:54 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Steven Barile wrote:

if you guys think this is a good idea please post
here... they are reading it!

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 of old 9V track, it might automatically stop, holding in that position
to recharge... but that blocks the track. In other words, while completely
automated here when the line goes down that loop goes down, right? Stil very
useful, but I'm trying to think of a better way.

Roboticly, I now want your hypothetical train battery pack for my NXT, so I can
have an automated self-recharging robot. About the only thing we're lacking
there is a pure-LEGO charging connection.

--
Brian Davis



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  Re: New Press Release about Power Function Trains
 
(...) From a train point of view, not an issue, simply have a loop (in the UK railway sense of the term. i.e. a double ended siding) and have another train bypass the charging train. tim (17 years ago, 28-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains)

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  Re: New Press Release about Power Function Trains
 
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 (...) (17 years ago, 27-Mar-08, to lugnet.trains)

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