Thank you "gogetta2ohsc" for your comment. IMO, a bad soldering is a small indication of lower quality, but as you say, in this matter it is not a big deal. However, I expected a little bit higher quality of a car from MTL which was IMO very expensive.
This also runs the risk of cooking the motor. Also, not all command stations support zero stretching on address 00. Pretty sure my MRC Prodigy Express2 doesn't, even if it did, I wouldn't use it to prolong the life of the brushes and armatures in the motors subjected to it. If you're on DCC you need to either retain analog operations capability or convert all motorized equipment to DCC.
It almost appears like it's home made, those gear motors can be found on Ebay most of the time. I built my own HO scale track cleaner car, by motorizing an existing track cleaning boxcar:ua-cam.com/video/Tk1lCU0pYtA/v-deo.html
I can understand complaing about the stiffness of the trucks, but why bother complaining about the appearance of them from soldering? This is clearly a form over function item. I doubt its worthy of taking photos of so who cares. I can see it not being DCC compatible being a problem, but throw a DC loco on the tracks to pull it in DC mode and you are good to go. Nice item.
Hi Mark Ernst. With the gear box the torque is pretty good, but I think the cleaning pad is spinning too slow to get a good result. In my homemade cleaning car I have a many times faster rotation which I feel cleaning better.
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Thank you "gogetta2ohsc" for your comment.
IMO, a bad soldering is a small indication of lower quality, but as you say, in this matter it is not a big deal.
However, I expected a little bit higher quality of a car from MTL which was IMO very expensive.
For that kind of money it better have little People get out and scrub the tracks. That solder job alone warrants a return.
Now available in DCC.
For that kind of money I would expect a higher quality of craftsmanship. I’m very disappointed that this car came from Micro Trains.
If you keep the address of 00 at full Speed and run DCC trains the cleaning car rotate the cleaning pad at a fast speed.
Thank you Rrr mrrc for your comment.
It will work until the command station puts the address 00 to idle.
This also runs the risk of cooking the motor. Also, not all command stations support zero stretching on address 00. Pretty sure my MRC Prodigy Express2 doesn't, even if it did, I wouldn't use it to prolong the life of the brushes and armatures in the motors subjected to it.
If you're on DCC you need to either retain analog operations capability or convert all motorized equipment to DCC.
It almost appears like it's home made, those gear motors can be found on Ebay most of the time. I built my own HO scale track cleaner car, by motorizing an existing track cleaning boxcar:ua-cam.com/video/Tk1lCU0pYtA/v-deo.html
I can understand complaing about the stiffness of the trucks, but why bother complaining about the appearance of them from soldering? This is clearly a form over function item. I doubt its worthy of taking photos of so who cares. I can see it not being DCC compatible being a problem, but throw a DC loco on the tracks to pull it in DC mode and you are good to go. Nice item.
$90 is way to much for this crap...
Do you feel the motor is powerful enough? Should it spin faster or slower? Does it have much torque?
Hi Mark Ernst.
With the gear box the torque is pretty good, but I think the cleaning pad is spinning too slow to get a good result.
In my homemade cleaning car I have a many times faster rotation which I feel cleaning better.
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