Joe Fugate Modeling the 1980s SP Siskiyou Line in southern Oregon
Owner and superintendant of the N scale Texas Colorado & Western Railway, a protolanced representaion of the BNSF from Fort Worth, TX through Wichita Falls TX and into Colorado.
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Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum
QUOTE: At 12:08 PM 7/29/02 -0700, Mike Davison wrote: > >Can rechargable AAA batteries be used in the wireless thottles? If so, any >recommendations for type/brand? Mike, when we looked at the battery costs for our club operation, we came up with this: Nicads have only 1/2 the energy storage, hence frequent removal to recharge. Initial expense, including a charger is high. If the cabs could be dropped into a charger, much like most two-way radios, then we'd pursue this one. The wireless throttles use four AAAs in a series/parallel arrangement apparently to fit the case. The working voltage is 3-Volts. Very tidy. Sure gets HOT when some goofball reverses one of 'em AAs have about twice the energy that AAAs have but cost about the same. Two AAs about equal the energy capacity of four AAAs. If you reverse one or both AAs, no harm done. The cabs tend to fall on their face if left upright, so you lay them down and lose 'em until a train comes along and wacks it. The solution: Cemented a double AA case on the back, flush with the bottom and tack soldered its wires to the appropriate AAA clips inside. No touche the pc :-) Batteries cost half as much, easier to replace and the cab stands upright tending to eliminate the statement "where did I lay the #@$#$ thing" Same batteries that we been buying in bulk for the old Aristo-radio Wayne (We LOVE our EZ-DCC) in Idaho Wayne Roderick P.E. (EE) (ret) (NMRA life-1721) CEO, Teton Short Line, Pocatello Idaho, USA http://www.ida.net/users/tetonsl/railroad
Modeling BNSF and Milwaukee Road in SW Wisconsin
QUOTE: Originally posted by jfugate It is not necessary to have a disconnected programming track ... the connected programming track solution you have seen is the wrong way to wire in a connected programming track, and as you state, is guaranteed to blow decoders, or worse -- blow the programming circuitry in your command station.[:0] It is possible to have your cake and eat it too -- to have a connected programming track and never worry about blowing a decoder or harming the programming circuitry in your command station -- if you wire it right. That will be coming up next![:D]