Great video. I'm a little bus obsessed and would love to see this in my future layout. I've been watching the Japanese videos, but it's cool to get what's going on here in your video. Great production, too. Nice work. Thanks!
Battery life is approximately 3.5 hours of continuous operation. They worked again a few hours later, and gave another 20 minutes of operation before coming to a halt. The LR-44 batteries aren't that terribly expensive on Amazon. I purchased a pack of 20 for $6.00. There is a rechargeable Lithium-Ion equivalent available. On a secondary note, I tried placing the speed changing magnets on the curves when timing the battery life. The way the bus tracks, it does not change the speed on corners, and would occasionally pull the buss off the wire and to it's 'Doom.'
Thanks for the video. I just purchased a set from Plaza Japan last month. Two things I don't understand from your video compared to my starter set, however.... How do you get the bus to stop and start again automatically? If I set "stop" at the bus turnout, it stops permanently until the switch is set to "go". Also, where did you get the battery inserts to adjust the speed? Are these sold separately? Thanks for any info.
The road is just styrene, any plastic-compatible paint should work, but I haven't tried that. You could also make your own road by embedding a suitable steel guidewire under sheet styrene or in plaster, but test tracking ability first if you do; too deep and it won't follow, too shallow and it will grab it and stall. I haven't been playing with it enough to run down the first set of batteries, so I don't know their duration. It's more than a couple of hours.
Great video. I'm a little bus obsessed and would love to see this in my future layout. I've been watching the Japanese videos, but it's cool to get what's going on here in your video.
Great production, too. Nice work.
Thanks!
Thanks for this explanatory video. I got my set today and it works very well too.
Battery life is approximately 3.5 hours of continuous operation. They worked again a few hours later, and gave another 20 minutes of operation before coming to a halt. The LR-44 batteries aren't that terribly expensive on Amazon.
I purchased a pack of 20 for $6.00. There is a rechargeable Lithium-Ion equivalent available. On a secondary note, I tried placing the speed changing magnets on the curves when timing the battery life. The way the bus tracks, it does not change the speed on corners, and would occasionally pull the buss off the wire and to it's 'Doom.'
I will have to incorporate one of these in my layout someday. Any idea on how long the batteries last?
Thanks for the video. I just purchased a set from Plaza Japan last month. Two things I don't understand from your video compared to my starter set, however.... How do you get the bus to stop and start again automatically? If I set "stop" at the bus turnout, it stops permanently until the switch is set to "go". Also, where did you get the battery inserts to adjust the speed? Are these sold separately?
Thanks for any info.
The road is just styrene, any plastic-compatible paint should work, but I haven't tried that. You could also make your own road by embedding a suitable steel guidewire under sheet styrene or in plaster, but test tracking ability first if you do; too deep and it won't follow, too shallow and it will grab it and stall. I haven't been playing with it enough to run down the first set of batteries, so I don't know their duration. It's more than a couple of hours.
Anyone on here know where I can find one like this
how's the battery performance?
Where do.buy it plz send me a link