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Re: Question about Running 12v trains
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.boats
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Date:
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Tue, 16 May 2000 23:18:13 GMT
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"Ben" wrote:
> The Lego® motors (especially the older ones) are very robust! I drove my first
> 4.5 v motor for weeks with 12V and nothing happened, and I even drove it in
> the bathroom underwater
Ben, we have _got_ to hear the story of this! I used to make paddle
"steamers", using Electical tape and Lego (the tape seals the Lego up quite
well...except across the bottom...) I don't have any pic's here, and I doubt
there are any at home...
4.5V motor mounted in the middle of 4 of the (10x24?) green plates with walls
made of 1x bricks, wrapped with electrical tape. Bottom joints plated
top/bottom with longish pieces to reduce the number of leaks. Float times up
to about 15 min, before draining due to waterlevel aproaching batterybox. 4.5V
(3*C) battery box used.
James P
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| (...) first (...) 4.5V (...) At the age of maybe 5 to 7 I built a paddle steamer too, but I used the red swimming hulls of set 311: (URL) I built it with a gap in the middle for the paddles shaft and placed my 103 motor avove that. (I dared to use (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.boats)
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| | Re: Question about Running 12v trains
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| (...) I just wanted to confirm: I totally agree with the opinion of James Powell. Light bricks might be shortened in their expected lifetime by to high voltage. With 9 V they shold last for a very long time. The Lego® motors (especially the older (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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