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- From: urf@icl.se (Urban F)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.railroad
- Subject: Re: Bachmann motor
- Message-ID: <urf.725010712@sw2001>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 07:51:52 GMT
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- ardie@UIUC (R.D. McClary) writes:
-
- >>
- >>maintain a direction of rotation. If AC were applied to it, it would try to
- >>oscillate.
-
- >Not so! 1. Many of these motors are "universals" that can run on AC or
- >DC.
-
- It is true that an AC motor will run fine on DC, but when you
- reverse polarity, it will still run in the same direction.
- Thus we can determine that a motor that reverses direction on
- a DC system, will not work on AC.
-
-
- >>Also, the motor detemines the current draw. The motor will not
- >>draw 5 amps unless there is something seriously wrong with it.
-
- >I know that! The question was, can the motor handle that much current
- >before it gets fried.
-
- The two main things that influence how large current will be
- drawn, is the type of motor, and the voltage applied. There's
- no way to get a 1 A motor to draw 5 A without applying excess
- voltage.
-
- The question to ask is: Can the motor perform the amount of
- work required without overheating? I've had trouble fitting
- small can motors in large locomotives, but no real burnups.
-
-
- But back to your problem. You could install it and run it,
- provided it only gets DC, and never encounters track that
- has AC across it. (And if your system reverses direction
- by high-voltage pulses, never give it any of those.)
-
- In my opinion, it would be too much trouble having both AC
- and DC on the same layout -- but that's OK, as you can run
- the AC motors on DC. Then you "just" have to keep two ways
- of reversing directions.
-
- I know people who does this on Marklin track, as they
- started out with Marklin, but then some other manufacturer
- made a model they wanted (in DC), which they put a centre
- rail shoe on.
-
- With AC, you can also have real cheap two train control by
- running them on half-wave rectified AC, and with diodes
- mounted in different directions at the motors.
-
- (Still, all in all, it's probably easiest just to find a
- suitable AC motor to put in.)
- --
- Urban Fredriksson urf@icl.se
-