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| (...) Matt, how about setting the max. voltage of the decoder to 9V? I know some of the digitrax decoders (and the Lenz/Marklin) ones you can do this. James P (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) I just totally disagree, it is a very weak connection, you can't pick the car up by the body, the trucks fall off. But it's cheap, those parts are easy to come by and you save a lot of plates in the floor. (...) Mr. 8Wide: "<ppssss-chhhhhuh> (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Dear NYANTA, I really enjoyed your pages; great work. My favorites have been (of course) the Shinkansen and the D51. That's indeed one of the few nice looking steem engines I ever have seen released in 9V. "leg godt" Ben (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Hi I did see one, but that's for the 9V track, I think Cliff was on about the 12 Volts I use Solvent Cleaner and a cotton buds and rub very hard, The black stuff has some thing to do with the air oxidising on the electric contacts' on the bottom of (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Douglas, Take a look around some of the train-related sites. The original creations displayed far surpass anything that was available from TLG. I'm in the same boat but I've picked up some new (older) 45xx sets on offer in UK and Europe mainly (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| I didn't see the specific request for 12V but perhaps you are correct. I do believe that 9V track gets dirty as well. Take a look at Ben Fleskes Daylight page: (URL) you look at the image on the bottom it appears that the wheels have acquired some (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Heh, THAT sounds familiar to me :-) LEGO sold the sweeper-contacts in a servicepack (#703) and that was a cheap way to convert the battery operated train to 12V one. I never thought about the different motor types as a kid. Indeed, mine is (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) My 4.5v motors are 30 years old and have been subjected to first 4.5v (of course) then 12v on a regular basis. They still work fine today though I have had them apart for oiling and re-bushing. I cannot think of a toy available that will take (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) I brought this idea up in lugnet.robotics a while ago. I'm interested in building an RCX controlled switch engine. The vague plans floating around in my head now involve cannibalizing a relay with the right specs to be driven by an RCX output (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> schreef in berichtnieuws 38A5FDF2.C56198C0@vo...ger.net... (...) 16 (...) If (...) Okay here goes: The 12V signal kit consists of four parts: 1. Electrical wire 2. The signal lights 3. Special track 4. The controls (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Thanks Frank. One quick question. The converter from 12v connector to 9v connector is in the switch box? From your page "The 12V electrical wires have different connectors than the 9V connector plates. There is at least one conversion required to (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) It was great! Thanks. One thing for those of us who are squeamish about cutting track to make electrical gaps... there are at least two other ways. One is as follows: take 2 sections of track and put black electrical tape or some other thin (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Dear Ben, the Lego®-motors are to small to have a thermal switch. Only the speed regulator has one, to avoid damage on the regulator by short cuts in the curcuit. But you can drive the 9V motor for quite a while with at least 12V, since all Lego® (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Frank- Looks good but I assume you are using a fibblesnork background because you give credit for one yet I cannot see it using Netscape 4.5. All I see are random white rectangles. -John (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) and (...) Hi Frank, absolutely clear and exhaustive. Quite a good job! And you site has that kind of very clean and essential look that I love. Mario Web page: (URL) member page: (URL) member of ItLUG: (URL) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) give (...) I have just downloaded Netscape and indeed it seems to have trouble with the stylesheets :-( I'll have to figure out how Netscape handles stylesheets differently than Internet Explorer. Thanks for mentioning it. -Frank (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) give (...) The problem should be fixed now, a little script at the start of the page selects the right stylesheet for Internet Explorer or Netscape. Netscape seems to handle tables with background images wrong, so the Netscape version has no (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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