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0 Shinkansen - Kato, Micro Ace or Tomix?


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22 hours ago, disturbman said:

I hope you ordered Popondetta's lights with capacitors then, the Tomix/Kato/MA lights are about as good as useless.

Unfortunately, I ordered the Tomix lights 😔 thinknig these would fit best.  Since each of these cars seem to be power-connected, I wonder if it would help to keep them from flickering. 🤔

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disturbman

It should. I always forget that the Tomix Shinkansen have these fiddly power-routing couplers 😅

 

That said the Popondetta/HKTILC lights are by far superior and it's best to keep that in mind when wanting to light up trains.

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Yes the power routing couplers are fantastic for keeping lighting and train running constant and why i love tomix shinkansens! The couplers are not very fiddly once you do them a few times. Main issue is just having the coupler arm strainght when you couple the cars. After a few cars it becomes a reflex to straighten both and push together. Not any harder than some of the other odd shinkansen coupler system once you are using its some. May take a couple of minutes more to put out a full 16 car train but I thing thats worth the smooth running you get from it.

 

When they first came out and I got my first one i also bought a pair of power couplers figuring the new mech may be delicate, but ive never broken one yet in many years and many tomix power coupled shinkansens. I often wondered if tomix worried they might break as it was an easy spare part to get. Then i saw it the next few years on all the hs sales and wondered if they were not selling as not needed like my spares were.

 

jeff

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