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- From: ardie@UIUC (R.D. McClary)
- Subject: Apology - AC/DC
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- Organization: Department of Plant Pathology
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 12:43:00 GMT
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- I admit I was confused concerining can motors, AC, and DC. Without
- trying to sound like I am trying to justify myself, I shall try to explain
- the cause of my confusion.
- 1. I recently converted my Sugami (?) powered American Models FP-7
- from DC to AC by adding a "reverse unit". Without advertising this fact,
- the board obviously included a rectifier. (My planned conversion was to
- include this same board since a yard switcher that runs in only one
- direction is only slightly more useful than it is on the shelf!) (On the
- cheap, a bridge rectifier diode costs about a dollar at Radio Hack, but I
- would still be one-direction-only.)
- 2. The idea for the conversion came from an article in the Jan-Feb,
- 1990 issue of S-Gaugian. The author neglected to mention a few things
- here. He must be running on DC!
- Conclusions? As I have the Bachman motor already, I could mount it in
- the Baldwin chassis, hook up about 4 cars, and run it for about 2-5 minutes
- and see how hot it gets. If it doesn't get too hot, I can wait and save up
- for a REAL motor.
- Thanks to all that replied.
- Richard
-