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Battery requirements for RC Bachman Mogol and other problems
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I'm a beginner in RC and the Airwire 9000 and a compatible Pheonix sound system still sit in boxes and my Kansas Central Mogol hasn't moved except last year on my track power layout. My two layouts(50's UP and 1870's Kansas Central narrow gauge) are under a forest canopy and are subject to so much debris, flooding and winter frost heaves that I'm fed up maintaining track power. I want to convert all my engines to RC, but I'm a techno idiot and I'm affraid to rip my locomotives apart to do the necessary lobotomy. I need people to tell me its easy. <br /><br />I need advice on the number of Nimh batteries I need to power my mogul (trailing car) and a few Bachman cars around a relatiely flat track plan with two reversing loops. My other four locos are all small steam and a diesel switcher. No big loads, no operating just watching and photgraphing and gardening. <br /><br />I wasn't thinking of how to handle the track power on the reversing loops - LGB had some little gizmo I could use so I just went ahead and do what I like doing, building the layout with tunnels, bridges and waterfalls. Now I'm stuck, LGB is in trouble and there are apparently part shortages - all the more reason to go to RC. I met a fellow named Stretch from Oregon who said he would design a system for handling the reverse loops and switches but he's probably not back from the Las Vegas event yet so I haven't heard from him. <br /><br />I went to a local Batteries Plus and saw NIMH batteries but had no idea how many to buy for my Bachman loco or how to gang them to get a particular voltage. The clerks in the store just looked at me funny so I left embarrassed. Then I have no source for a charger. Somebody tell me what to buy and where. <br /><br />The Airwire people should have a group clinic to help clutzes like me convert a locomotive. I know people who will do this for me for a few hundred but they all seem to be backed up with work. It's almost July and my nephews are asking, "When are the trains going to run?" Help?
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