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Sarah Winfield

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I don't know much about R/C other than that which I learned when I had R/C controlled boats and planes.

Since I have my Playmobil R/C diesel and the transmitter should be matched to the receiver what happens if I want to run a second locomotive please?

Thanks,

SW
 
Sarah Winfield said:
I don't know much about R/C other than that which I learned when I had R/C controlled boats and planes.

Since I have my Playmobil R/C diesel and the transmitter should be matched to the receiver what happens if I want to run a second locomotive please?

Thanks,

SW
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If you are talking about the Diesel that you recently bought, there is a Button on the Radio that says CH, this can change to another channel. Pressing that and the CH button on the loco together (located at one end just above the buffer beam) will allow a different chanel to be selected for a second locomotive.
 
I believe the yellow Playmobil diesel has 3 channels, you just bind/mate each loco to the relevant handset and away you go,

That’s the benefit of modern radio gear, you just bind transmittter and reliever and no interference from other users on the same channel
 
Most of my experience of RC comes from the '70s, when we only had 27MHz gear using interchangeable crystals in the Tx and Rx to select channels..... this modern stuff with "binding" Tx and Rx together is still a bit of Arcane Magicks to me..... ;)

Jon.
 
Actually, thinking back to those days (when I was messing around with semi-scale electric RC boat models on the local Yacht Pond), there was an old chap who showed up regularly with a six-foot-long perfect scale model of HMS Belfast, complete with rotating turrets and "firing" guns (using a glow-plug soldered into the end of a piece of tube, to ignite a tiny black-powder charge - probably highly illegal even back in those days...) - and this magnificent creation was radio-controlled from a massive and archaic "reed transmitter" housed in a mahogany box with loads of switches on it, with about an eight-foot antenna sticking out of the top!
It made the 2-channel 27Mhz MacGregor system that I was using look positively bleeding-edge tech.......

Jon.
 
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Actually, thinking back to those days (when I was messing around with semi-scale electric RC boat models on the local Yacht Pond), there was an old chap who showed up regularly with a six-foot-long perfect scale model of HMS Belfast, complete with rotating turrets and "firing" guns (using a glow-plug soldered into the end of a piece of tube, to ignite a tiny black-powder charge - probably highly illegal even back in those days...) - and this magnificent creation was radio-controlled from a massive and archaic "reed transmitter" housed in a mahogany box with loads of switches on it, with about an eight-foot antenna sticking out of the top!
It made the 2-channel 27Mhz MacGregor system that I was using look positively bleeding-edge tech.......

Jon.
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It may have been archaic compared to yours, but what was more fun?
 
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