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| | | A week or so there was a lenthy thread involving legomodular standards, and there was a conference call placed where something was agreed upon, I belive? Has this been hashed out yet, and if so, could someone please post the information for the rest (...) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Legomodular standards? —Mike Poindexter
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| | | | Wayne, The standards were agreed upon and Larry sent off an email with a txt file that had some meeting notes. I got those and merged them with my notes and made a word file that I sent back to everyone for approval. I need to add pictures of the (...) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Legomodular standards? —Robert Green
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| | | | | Not seeing anything yet, this might have already been covered. But, have you guys addressed electrical inter-operablity between modules? With 10' lego wires avalible from pitsco-dacta, even a parralell bus (to cut down on the electrical resistance (...) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Legomodular standards? —Mike Poindexter
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| | | | | | | (...) Well, any module that has electrical connections to the track will run them back to the controller area in the module. From there, a controller could be removed and the wire just run to the other controller where multiple layouts are (...) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Legomodular standards? —John Gerlach
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| | | | | | | | (...) The GMLTC is planning on having two speed regulators for each track around our layout. We'll split the layout electrically, so we can have higher power on the uphill side, and lower power on the downhill side. We really have no idea how our (...) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Legomodular standards? —Tom Stangl
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| | | | | | | | How will you handle engines/trains with multiple motors as they cross the transition from one trackset to the other? (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (24 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Legomodular standards? —Mike Poindexter
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| | | | | | | | | In the future, if Lego doesn't come out with DCC or something like it in their 2001 train line, I will be converting my motors over to DCC. The newest line of Digitrax decoders offers a unit that reads back the EMF from the motor and adjusts to (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Legomodular standards? —James Powell
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| | | | | | | | | (...) As long as the 2 controllers are set to the same 'notch', you will not have any real problem. The motor will get 2x voltage for the period of time that it takes with one set of wheels on one power supply, and the other from the other (not all (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Legomodular standards? —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | | | | James Powell wrote in message ... (...) any (...) other (...) repeat (...) Well, actually, it won't get twice the voltage... There are actually two considerations of crossing a gap: 1. A single motor will temporarily bridge the gap. I'm assuming (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Legomodular standards? —Dean Husby
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| | | | | | | | (...) The thing that I keep wondering about is when the motor is over the break point. For a brief time BOTH motor pickups are on two different circuits... Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Legomodular standards? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | (...) point. For (...) Yes. You are correct, Sir! And, briefly, that means that the two outputs are tied together. The more difference in voltage values, theoretically the more strain is placed on the power supplies. However, actually, these (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Legomodular standards? —Simon Denscombe
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| | | | | | (...) I've checked pitsco-dacta's website and I can't find the wires - are they there? Carbon 60 (24 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Legomodular standards? —Robert Green
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| | | | | | They arn't on the web site, I have only seen them in the spare parts area in the catalog. They have two different wire paks, two 10', and one with a 5', 2', and 1' (approx). I'll dig up my catalog and post the part #'s and cost a bit later tonight. (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Legomodular standards? —Robert Green
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| | | | | | Arn't? What was I thinking? That is what I get for typing with one hand. I'm looking at my 2000 pitsco-dacta catalog (because young minds matter) Here are all the electrical parts, numbers, and prices. Lego Solar Cell #979912 $35 Lego Capacitor (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Legomodular standards? —Tom Stangl
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| | | | | | The capacitor can be used to run lights in a train if you run an RCX to power the rails - that way, the lights will be full brightness. That's assuming the cap has a diode to allow current only one way, otherwise you'd have to add one to the wire (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Legomodular standards? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) Given the amount of feedback we've gotten from the rest of the groups (not too much, nothing very serious) I'd say Mike ought to go ahead. He did a lot of good work in elaborating my somewhat sketchy meeting notes into a much more thorough (...) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Legomodular standards? —John Gerlach
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| | | | (...) Except the 'pattern' is supposed to be fairly random - everyone does it differently. We decided to add the black just to break up the huge expanse of red that we'd otherwise have. So far, no one at any show has noticed the difference between (...) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Legomodular standards? —Mike Poindexter
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| | | | I will modify the doc to state it as a "random pattern" but I noticed a difference between the "splotchy" type and the "fissure" type. I built mine with the fissure type pattern, although sometimes it can look like black lightning. (Would that be (...) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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