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Re: The Green Machine has arrived
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:27:32 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Stacy Bledsoe writes:
> Well James, when were you going to let your train club members know what you
> were up to? Fast trains.....last night I hooked up a 9v battery pack to a 9v
> train motor.... I was actually testing something else (lighting). But, I was
> amazed at the speed. If you want a fast train, just run the train from a
> battery pack located in a car behind the loco. Oh, more flames coming out of
> the jet engine on the green machine makes it look as if it is going faster,
> too.
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> Stacy
You know I got inspired at the Saturday meeting, after running a few of those
trains a bit faster they could handle I wanted to make one that could handle
the abuse. So I built the Green Machine that evening.
But how am I going to control the train if it running off of a battery? Robin
(GFLTC) is up for setting up a race track at a show and racing two trains
agaist each other. So you have to be able to control the trains some since the
course I was working on would require you to slow down at times. If they ran
at full speed all the time, the race would get boring and it wouldn't be much
of a race.
I'm working on GMII (Green Machine II) now that does have more flames, but I'm
including fiber optics to light up the flames. I'm just concerned about how
much power the fiber optics, and motor to run the fiber optics, is going to
take away from the speed of the train. Right now I have a light brick in the
cockpit of the GMI and it looks pretty cool when it's running at full speed
and the room lights are out. Nice green neon glow.
jt
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| The solution, if it doesn't add too much bulk or weight, is to mount the small battery pack and drive the fiperoptics off of that, instead of off track power. - Greg (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: The Green Machine has arrived
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| (...) Well James, when were you going to let your train club members know what you were up to? Fast trains.....last night I hooked up a 9v battery pack to a 9v train motor.... I was actually testing something else (lighting). But, I was amazed at (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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