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    8475 Motor Tests —Thomas Avery
   Last night I performed a few quick tests on the 5292 motors (the new motors from the 8475 Race Buggy set: (URL) to compare them to the standard geared 9V motor ((URL) summary, the 5292 motor (when geared down to match RPM of 71427) has about 2.33 (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: 8475 Motor Tests —John Barnes
     This is interesting information, thanks TJ. I must say that I got the visual impression that the buggy motors seemed to have more than a mere 2 - 3 times more shaft power output than the gear motors. The little piece of data which would add greatly (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
    
         Re: 8475 Motor Tests —Thomas Avery
     (...) Yes, I did too. Judging from the performance of the RC car, you'd think the motors would be equivalent to perhaps 8, or more, of the geared 9V motors. The buggy can really zip along! There was one other thing about my test. When the 9252 motor (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
    
         Re: 8475 Motor Tests —John Barnes
      That figure was the normal operation (no load) figure. What concerned me was that it was a factor of almost 20 higher than the gear motors which normally run about 10mA. Of course, it is very easy to overlook the fact that the gear motor is (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
     
          Re: 8475 Motor Tests —Thomas Avery
      (...) Well, check this out: (URL) are a few pictures of the internals of the motor. Quite a few gears! (...) Thanks! TJ (21 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
     
          Re: 8475 Motor Tests —John Barnes
      Ok, here is an extrapolated result for the short circuit (stalled) test. The current at 9 volts would be 3.6 amps. Since I did not wish to burn up the motor, I checked current readings at both 3 and 6 volts and also measured the DC resistance and (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
     
          Re: 8475 Motor Tests —Thomas Avery
      (...) Holy C......... That's quite high (understatement) for a little LEGO motor. Do you think it's possible that the train controller I used in my test didn't produce enough juice? If that's the case, then the motor has a higher maximum stall (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
    
         Re: 8475 Motor Tests —Ross Crawford
     (...) The limitation on the train controller is the wall wart - not the controller itself. There was discussion on this in .trains a while back. Someone built a tranformer box with about 3A output IIRC, and ran several trains with it through an (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jan-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: 8475 Motor Tests —Philippe Hurbain
     Hi Thomas, Interesting informations ! I added a link to this thread in my motor comparison page... Philo www.philohome.com (21 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: 8475 Motor Tests —Tobbe Arnesson
   (...) Arrrgh! Don't do this to me! Don't make me want more motors of a different kind! :-) /Tobbe (URL) SPAM when e-mailing) (21 years ago, 9-Jan-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
 

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