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Re: Anyone using motors, etc. in Castle creations?
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Mon, 22 Nov 1999 23:45:39 GMT
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"James Brown" <galliard@shades-of-night.com> writes:
It worked well, except that it's very dim.  I still think
that might be because I'm using several lights off a single
battery pack.

If you're using standard LEGO electrical parts (plates, wires, etc)
aren't the lights hooked up in parallel?  If so, then the only reason for
dim lights would be low batteries, right?
--Bram


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  Re: Anyone using motors, etc. in Castle creations?
 
(...) If you put enough lights in parallel, they will start to dim. Since we have no ideal power sources, all power sources will put out a lower voltage as the load increases. Batteries are pretty good, and can dump their energy pretty quick. A (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)

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(...) It's not all that tricky, actually. I used two methods, mostly. For fireplaces, I put the light brick right into the back wall of the fireplace, and piled the fireplace high with trans-red, trans-yellow and trans-orange 1x1 round plates. Makes (...) (25 years ago, 22-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)

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