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Re: Digital train control?
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 7 Aug 2000 05:07:01 GMT
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On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 04:55:34AM +0000, Michael Lachmann wrote:
> I've had a look in a electronic store the day before yesterday called Conrad
> Elelektronik (in Germany and Austria). I found a digital train control set
> to build yourself.
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> I would like to know if ever someone tried to combine digital train controls
> with lego trains?
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> What I know is that this kind of controls normaly run at arround 18V, but
> Lego trains run at 9V ... so I believe without any modification I would burn
> out the train motor.
Yup, WAMALUG's Tom Cook was the first (I believe) to do such things, and it
works pretty cool... Check out his page at :
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/cook_thomas/
and click on the "DCC Project" on the toolbar :)
Dan
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