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1 speed regulator 2 trains and tracks
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 2 Dec 1998 20:05:00 GMT
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Is there any danger in hooking up one regulator to two sets of track with two
of the wires that clip to the track. I tried it out and I know that it works
but wasn't sure if this was a "legal" thing to do or am I going to end up
blowing up the system? How many clips can you attach to the regulator before
the resistance start to slow down the trains? (physics wasn't my thing) Can
you attach anything else like motors (non train ones) to the regulator? I just
don't want to repeat anyone's bad experiments.
thanks
-eben
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: 1 speed regulator 2 trains and tracks
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| (...) just (...) I think it's pretty much impossible to damage the train controller no matter what you do to it [1]. Lego expect people to 'experiment', that's the whole point of Lego so you can be sure that if you can build it, it will be safe. [2] (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: 1 speed regulator 2 trains and tracks
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| Not an expert in electronics....I think the regulator adjust to the amount of current that is drawn by the motors so two regulators would share the workload on the same system and if you add more motors on the same regulator it would just feed more (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: 1 speed regulator 2 trains and tracks
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| 1) The location you clip wires onto the regulator contains two terminals. One of these terminals sources current to a load (e.g., a motor). The other of these terminals provides the return path for current (remember, an electrical circuit forms a (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.trains)
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