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Post by frankenstein on Sept 30, 2019 10:03:14 GMT -7
No reason you could not add dynamic braking to the steel strips as there is no power applied to them. Just short the steel bars together. In fact you gave me the idea to do that on my track. Some of my cars still slam into the stop box, especially when they start to exceed 20 MPH. At 40-60+ they can really hit hard. Make sure your bodies are mounted well and your stop box is well padded. Yes the dynamic braking worked on the steel strips. Make sure you sand down the area you will attached the wire to the steel strip (it did not work until I did that). BUT I was shocked at how the steel strips alone did not help slow down the car even thought the magnets grabbed the sh*t out of them. Could not pull the car off the track yet it still rolled as far as a regular track with the thin rails. Apparently its a vertical thing and not a horizontal force thing. Now my brain hurts. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2019 10:52:08 GMT -7
sorry to hear of your experience.
I used pretty much raw steel and sanded them smooth. they work really good.
I have soldered wires to them so I can use "shunt dynamic " braking or "reverse polarity dynamic" braking.
I use 9 volt batteries for the reverse polarity dynamic braking and that helps a lot too.
I got the idea from guy who routed out the rails of his track and put 1/4 X 1/4 steel bars in place of the rails.
understand that those are raised up off the surface of the track, so the magnet is closer to the steel bar.
I haven't the patience to do all that, so I just used fat steel to replace the track.
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