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Posted by TonyWalsham on Monday, February 20, 2006 3:01 PM
Philip,
Like most other battery R/C systems, when a trackside TE is to be used on board a loco and be powered by a constant voltage on the track, you must fit a bridge rectifier with suitable filtering between the track pick ups and the TE itself. Otherwise when the loco is running the opposite way it cannot pick up power.
With a bridge rectifier in the loco on the track pick ups it will not matter if the constant track power is AC or DC.

Best wishes,

Tony Walsham

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Posted by Chompers on Monday, February 20, 2006 8:55 AM
The "Aristo Craft On board Train Enginere" can be ran off of batteries or Track power.
Both modes are radio controle.

I believe that all G scale RC is DC. corect me if im wrong.

Sincerely
Philip
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radio control
Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 19, 2006 9:52 AM
hello I'm french.

With a radio control on board my locomotiv can run on a DC control if I would for an exemple on my freind layout?

A radio control useDC or AC power? If I can use the two power what is the best?

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