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doublereefed

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Greetings,

I'm going to add battery/RC to an Accucraft RGS Goose #7. I don't have a good way to play with applying power to the pickups... no power supply, no 12V batteries laying around to see if 12V will give it a decent trundling high end speed. ... I'm a live steamer, dangit! :) Can anyone weigh in on 12v with the Goose #7, or do I need to plan on higher voltage?

Best,

-Richard
 
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I don't have #7, but I do have #2. I run it with a 14.8 v Cordless Revolution Lithium-ion battery pack and an AristoCraft REVO controller. At maximum (100%) on the throttle it took 61 seconds to do one loop of my mainline. The track is 87' long. According to my speed time tables that is about 20 scale mph (1:20.3).

I don't know what the typical speeds for the geese were, but I think that it would really crawl with a 12 volt battery.

Chuck
 
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Car batteries are really 12.6 volts and when the engine is running it is closer to 14 volts.
For a higher voltage look at laptop power packs. Dell has 19 volts and latest ones are over 4 amps. Just make sure they are DC outputs!!
Plus car batteries can output way too much current, a laptop power pack is much safer with low current output to experiment with compared to a car battery.
 
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