Reply to "Anyone wire up a LC loco to run from a battery?"

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Since the LC and LC+ stuff will run on DC, it's probably simple enough to use a Lithium battery pack in a trailing boxcar and just tap into the track pickups of the locomotive. If you're going exclusive battery power, I'd remove the pickups.

I'd be looking at the 12 to 18 volt range for the battery pack voltage and as much capacity as will fit into your battery car. A good place to look is model airplane sites, they have the battery packs and the chargers as well.

A good plan would be to have a couple of battery packs so you could be charging one and running with the other one.

Here's a site with a nice assortment of 14.4 volt packs, about ideal for LC and LC+ stuff.

http://www.batteryspace.com/4cellspack148v.aspx

Here's an appropriate charger for that pack.

http://www.batteryspace.com/sm...emaletamiyaplug.aspx

BTW Brian, I've seen some of your work, your expertise amazes me, and I can excuse the lack of knowledge in on minor area.

7/20/159:38 AM

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