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Nice job MikeZang! Endeavor is a good thing and perseverance is a virtue! I hope you also get good progress on the PF part!

indeed buying bulk pays off, we have had a good deal some years ago, some old people cleaned up their attic, were amazed that we had offer 'so much' on Ebay, when we came home we found extra train parts like a red 12V etc, so it was a very good bargain.

http://www.bricksand...photos-preview/ (August 2014) (and read the article for the other option ;))

We have both although the Classic Space logo's are not on our site at the moment :) (torso's with metallic / white / red on transparent material), we carry the whole 77xx series.

@HoMa: noticed it ;)

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Nice job MrFluffles, do you also participate in the new BeLUG train club?!

It indeed is a Stadler GTW 2/8 but is also described as "FLIRT Type Spurt" (not sure if that is correct though). Well it is not bad, has airconditioning etc. but I normally only take it for about 2 minutes (one stop). Often very crowded though ;) Stadler and Veolia then I guess (they probably came up with the paint scheme ;)) dr_spock, is that image above from the other topic "rhätische bahn" in Switzerland?!

I take this one now and then in Holland: (The FLIRT that Dr. Spock was mentioning)

I think the Bombardier is more like the older PF train (7897) although the LEGO nose is way too long for the Bombardier.

Well, it isn't very hard to verify his statement, is it?!

Alstom Lint I think.

It actually shows the cutting in the video, as well as the printing. The black unit is the cutter, the aluminum unit has the actual printing head. Of course it is slick (that is why it is so costly ;))

Really, really neat indeed! I like the driving construction too, how does it run?!

There is a difference in the Train Remote and the Technic Remote. Apart from that not all functions are currently used in available remotes but of course will work in the receiver and can be used if we use propriety methods.

printing white on transparent is very difficult, our machine can do it, but even then I often must print two layers. printing on white is often a better idea on darker backgrounds. Of course for the old 77xx series we do often print white on transparent and it works very well, but I'm still not totally satisfied with colors on transparent vinyl and a white base layer, one white base layer will sometimes not be enough to make it opaque enough and two layers will make the otherwise vibrant top colors to matte. We have this machine b.t.w.:

We can also help out with decals (see below), but it is quite busy at the moment. Scaling Santa Fe will be quite easy for us though ;)

Very nice Raymdbrown, welcome to the Train Tech forum and EB.com b.t.w.! Do you only do trains or also other LEGO themes?!

well, you essentially could, connect an IR led to the RCX output and modulate the PF signal over it. But your resolution will still be 4-bits unless you use arduino or some other microcontroller with a motor driver at the receiving end (arduino / atmega motor control will allow an 8-bit resolution 0..255, other DAC's would allow even higher resolution).

Of course the speed will be more lineair with PID, that is what PID is all about, but maybe I just don't have complicated enough trains, so pardon my in that case :) Your topic title says: "PF receiver", so that is why I thought you wanted to use the PF receiver with PID control. I don't think it was here though, it was in Railbricks: Issue 3 - Spring 2008. I guess you could use his strategy, but then attach the PF motor using the adapter cable directly to the RCX without using the PF receiver (that you apparently don't have so also even can't use?!).

I'm now totally confused and puzzled. You are doing this for train control right?! Why would you want to use PID for train control?!! Apart from that, if you really wanted to use PID control, it would be almost the only option to either use your own controller or directly control the train motor from the NXT / RCX. You just can't use the PF receiver for that, and... it does not make sense at all to want to do that (if you were a high school / college student of mine my reaction would have been even more amazed ;)) As I said, we (my student and I) have our own train controller but would never want to use PID. PID or even PD is nice for robotics in a unpredictable situation, not for a very predictable situation like trains that move in one direction or the other and can't move sideways etc.

you apparently don't understand what PWM is and how it works: So if you want to do that you can, but you will need another controller. It does not make any sense at all though, we have a controller for some LEGO train project that uses 8-bits but effectively 4 bits are just as good: there already is a 'dead' range in the lower regions. Most of the time you don't want your train motor to have full speed (it will derail), so 4 bit resolution is high enough with these LEGO train motors.

see the official LEGO documentation... http://www.philohome...unctions_RC.pdf so what is your question again? you seem to be answering it first, then asking...

Looks great sheo! the details just do it!

Very nice Baard, I like the turntable etc. very much!