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RailPro on Battery Power
nodcc4me:
Nice work Terry! Looks very promising.
Jwin:
Terry,
This is great, I will have to give it a try. Needs all the lights but this is a great start to becoming dead rail. Thanks for sharing
John
Terry:
Sunday afternoon - just got back from Jay's industrial layout. Loco worked beautifully over the maze of switches and crossings - flawless. The sound really drew us in; and when idling, I kept wondering if I'd run out of diesel fuel - I guess being on battery added to that too. The session lasted two and a half hours and the batteries are still raring to go. It was fun.
Terry
Alan:
Terry,
I am curious why the allure of battery. Earlier today I was amusing myself after a module installation (and after break-in) by seeing how slow I could make my latest motive power addition craw with a 16 car train behind it. It traveled the whole railroad (about 150') at what had to be less than 1 scale MPH without a hiccup. Just for kicks I backed the train for the return trip at the same crawl. The trip included across many turnouts some curved and even a 3-way. It took a very long time. ;D While I was watching the train barely moving your battery thread came to mind. I even wrote myself a reminder note to ask you the question.
If an amateur like me can make conventional track electrical supply work this well what is about battery power that is so desirable?
KPack:
Alan, the answer to that question, for me at least, would be to have reliable running on other layouts. I could probably build my own with trackwork that would pass under most circumstances, but to be able to take a locomotive and place it on anyone's track without thinking twice about their track quality would make it worth it.
Kevin
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