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Re: Anyone using motors, etc. in Castle creations?
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lugnet.castle
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Thu, 25 Nov 1999 05:37:07 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, James Brown writes:
> In lugnet.castle, David Eaton writes:
> > In lugnet.castle, James Brown writes:
> > > I'm not sure if that's what I'm running into or not. My lights are rather
> > > buried in my castle, and I can't say I'm willing to dig them out right now.
> > > I am running (if memory serves correctly) 8 or 9 lights off one box, and 4 of
> > > those are the 'police' lights (1x4 brick, two lights on top that alternate),
> > > so about 12 bulbs in total, running off 1 battery box through 3 9v wires, and
> > > a number of the conducting plates.
> > >
> > > All that being said though, I'm fairly certain that the big reason the lights
> > > are dim is that Lego lights *are* dim. They just don't shed a whole lotta
> > > light.
> >
> > Well, here's a question for you: what kind of box is it? Is it the 4x8?x2?
> > battery box with the single grey button (runs off 1 9v battery), or the
> > 4x12?x3? battery box w/ 2 buttons (runs off 6 AA batteries)? I think (if
> > memory serves) that running lots of lights off of a little (9v battery) box
> > was a lot dimmer than using the larger box (6 AA's)... Otherwise, can you hook
> > up multiple boxes to add power? I forget whether that works or not... But I
> > seem to remember 6 AA's working a lot better than a single 9v...
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> I'm using the larger battery box. I haven't tried multple boxes yet, mostly
> because I haven't dug up 6 spare batteries yet. I will try it when I get a
> chance, and let people know the result.
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> James
> http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
My 2 cents worth to solve the problem of dim lights: why not not try using a
plug-in transformer from one of the train sets? Not only will this support a
large load of lights, but you will actually have complete remote control over
the whole light array and never needlessly drain batteries.
Dan
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 | | Re: Anyone using motors, etc. in Castle creations?
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| (...) I'm not using one because I don't have one. ;) If I ever see a train with enough castle-applicable parts to interest me, at a good discount, I may get one. Until then, I shall rely on the battery box. Unless there's some altruistic train-head (...) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
| | | (Update)Re: Anyone using motors, etc. in Castle creations?
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| In lugnet.castle, Daniel Siskind writes: <snipped discussion about why LEGO lights are dim> (...) Well, James Powell was kind enough to send me a transformer out of his spares(1), and I hooked it up this weekend as a test. Long and short of it: the (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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