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Re: MoC: The Limacion track design is BUILT!
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Sun, 28 Jan 2001 20:38:17 GMT
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> How much room do you have between one layer of the spiral and the next?
> I've been toying with multi-layer layouts and I'm not yet positive just
> how much room to leave between layers.
I think the best amount, if you can afford it in distance, is 15 bricks from
base-first hit thing. This will give about 14 bricks clear from rail, which is
enough to run all the stock lego stuff (including 4552). I had 12.6 on my
current layout, and would aim for a bit more than that on the next one...but, I
was forced into a comprimise between grade and height, which I didn't like (too
much grade, not enough height...I should have ran 1/2 way around the room
more...)
It is however, a comprimise always, and not one that is easy to solve.
Hopefully next time I will have more than 10 ft to come up the last 15
bricks...that or I will come up with a slighty different approach. The current
grade I had (about 1.3 bricks/length peak) limited me more going down hill than
up, to about 4 cars/motor.
James Powell
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| (...) Sounds like you need some dynamic breaks. I assume you kill the power on the downhill, but I was just wondering, what if the uphill and downhill parts of the track were separate from the mainline, and a resister was attached across the rails; (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: MoC: The Limacion track design is BUILT!
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| "James Powell" <wx732@freenet.victoria.bc.ca> wrote in message news:G7w3zt.CJw@lugnet.com... (...) from (...) which is (...) one...but, I (...) (too (...) I tried to follow that same idea. Way back when(RTL days) I asked if anyone came up with a (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: MoC: The Limacion track design is BUILT!
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| (...) Very impressive. How much room do you have between one layer of the spiral and the next? I've been toying with multi-layer layouts and I'm not yet positive just how much room to leave between layers. Also.. how long are you going to leave that (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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