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Re: Help with combining RCX and trains...
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 25 Oct 1999 03:55:15 GMT
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lpieniazek@&nospam&novera.com
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It's dead easy if you are willing to have the RCX be stationary... just
run the wallwart into the RCX power port, then have one of the motor
controls go to the track.
If you want to have the RCX onboard, powered by the rails, and
controlling the motor, there is no known way that does not involve
surgery or some massive kludging (1)
If you just want the RCX to control a train motor, you can feed power in
at the top, but it has to come somewhere other than from the rails that
the motor wheels are in contact with, such as a battery box.
If you just want to power an RCX from the rails, you can do it via the
motor, but it will need to be running full bore and you have to do a non
lego transformation from 2x2 connectors to wall wart socket, you can't
feed power into the RCX via a sensor connection.
1 - make a drive train out of something else, make power pickups out of
something else. Both kludgy but doable
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| Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <3813D4A3.2E69C446@v...er.net>... (...) I'm willing to do the surgery (gasp), just wanted some idea of how to open the train motor housing in some non-horrifically-disfiguring manner. (...) That's what I looking to (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Help with combining RCX and trains...
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| I would like to run a train with the Mindstorms RCX. I seem to remember reading about someone applying 9 volts to the rails, picking that power up through the powered bogey (sp?) to run the RCX onboard the train, and using one of the motor outputs (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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