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Re: Train Speed
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Date: 
Mon, 22 May 2000 16:57:35 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Christopher Tracey writes:
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

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



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  Re: Train Speed
 
Using 1 stud = 1.25" (which is 8 studs wide = a 10' wide train car) it ends up being 128 mph. Of course, pulling some 8 wide cars will undoubtedly slow that down a lot. Mike Poindexter Kevin Loch <kloch@opnsys.com> wrote in message (...) (24 years ago, 22-May-00, to lugnet.trains)

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  Train Speed
 
Using the new speed computer (URL) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 22-May-00, to lugnet.trains)

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