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Re: The Green Machine has arrived
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 22 Jul 2000 03:12:41 GMT
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GCRISP@MINDSPRING.COMihatespam
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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
"James J. Trobaugh" wrote:
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> In lugnet.trains, Stacy Bledsoe writes:
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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 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.
> >
> > 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.
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> 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
--
G. Crisp - gcrisp@mindspring.com
"Indian, indian, what did you die for? Indian says 'Nothing at all.'"
-- Jim Morrison
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