Are you in PR I can hear all the 🐸 coquins in the background 😂😂😂 my wife is from PR and I love the singing of the coquins special at night, by the way I will start to building a garden G scale but I would like to convert the trains to battery power any recommendations where I can find what I need to convert?
My garden trains are battery powered and use the RCS control system. Not sure they are still around but worth checking. I’ve also had goo luck with CVP and their customer support is fantastic
Hey Neal I am building a n scale layout in the spring. I am giving serious thought in going with battery rc dead rail. The last thing I need to find out though if im gonna go with battery is will the battery be able to give my lokos the same pulling power that my Bachmann starter set transformer will? With new gears and a couple extra driver wheels with traction tires I got my Bachmann 4-8-4 northern (with the throttle on full power) to pull 25 rapido coupler pizza cutter flanged wheeled cars over a mock setup of the toughest grade I gonna have on my layout. My goal is 35-40 cars and if I add couple more traction tire drivers and some weight .on the front part of chassie to keep the loko from wantin to do a wheelie, I think its possible. I couldn't find much of any videos on CZcams of n scale, or ho pulling heavy freights with battery power. Most of dead rail videos On youtube they are haulin trains like the ones you are runnin. I've asked a handful of people this question with no real diffinitive answer. Maybe you can answer this question for me. Hope to hear back from ya. - steve
You shouldn’t have any problems except finding room for the batteries. A friend has a very large layout in S scale that is run the same way and no one notices!
It really depends on the current draw of your locomotive. My guess is that an N scale engine would be 0.5amp per hour so nearly an hour running without recharging. This engine recharges when power is on the rails so seems to never run out of power.
I'd be happy with a 60 min run time. I'm not a expert when it comes to electronics but I was guessin that 430 mah would give me somewhere round 30 min run time. And I would have to get another chip that would allow me to charge the battery off the rails?
Are you in PR I can hear all the 🐸 coquins in the background 😂😂😂 my wife is from PR and I love the singing of the coquins special at night, by the way I will start to building a garden G scale but I would like to convert the trains to battery power any recommendations where I can find what I need to convert?
My garden trains are battery powered and use the RCS control system. Not sure they are still around but worth checking. I’ve also had goo luck with CVP and their customer support is fantastic
BTW I live in Hawaii where the coqui have taken over!
Hey Neal I am building a n scale layout in the spring. I am giving serious thought in going with battery rc dead rail. The last thing I need to find out though if im gonna go with battery is will the battery be able to give my lokos the same pulling power that my Bachmann starter set transformer will? With new gears and a couple extra driver wheels with traction tires I got my Bachmann 4-8-4 northern (with the throttle on full power) to pull 25 rapido coupler pizza cutter flanged wheeled cars over a mock setup of the toughest grade I gonna have on my layout. My goal is 35-40 cars and if I add couple more traction tire drivers and some weight .on the front part of chassie to keep the loko from wantin to do a wheelie, I think its possible. I couldn't find much of any videos on CZcams of n scale, or ho pulling heavy freights with battery power. Most of dead rail videos On youtube they are haulin trains like the ones you are runnin. I've asked a handful of people this question with no real diffinitive answer. Maybe you can answer this question for me. Hope to hear back from ya. - steve
You shouldn’t have any problems except finding room for the batteries. A friend has a very large layout in S scale that is run the same way and no one notices!
O yea bout how much run time do you think a 430 mah battery give me?
It really depends on the current draw of your locomotive. My guess is that an N scale engine would be 0.5amp per hour so nearly an hour running without recharging. This engine recharges when power is on the rails so seems to never run out of power.
I'd be happy with a 60 min run time. I'm not a expert when it comes to electronics but I was guessin that 430 mah would give me somewhere round 30 min run time. And I would have to get another chip that would allow me to charge the battery off the rails?
Correct. I got mine from Neal Stanford.