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Train Speed
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lugnet.trains
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Date:
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Mon, 22 May 2000 12:57:59 GMT
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Using the new speed computer http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=5206,
Jeff Stembel and I discovered the top speed along a ten foot section of
track is about 5.42 km/h (3.37 mi/h). Of course, there is no replication on
this experiment since we only tried one motor. The computer also read the
distance on a carpeted floor. Your results may vary.
-chris
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Train Speed
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| (...) Supposedly you can enter in the diameter of the wheel to calibrate it. It would be interesting to enter in the minifig scale equivalent diameter for the wheel and get minifig-scale speed measurements. KL (25 years ago, 22-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Train Speed: 9V vs. 12V
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| I was playing with a couple of my 12V engines (7735 and 7755) last night with a stopwatch. I don't have a very long stretch of straight track--only about 40"--but from my computations my average speed for both engines pulling nothing was about 2.84 (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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