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Subject: 
Use for Bad Lego Motor
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 2 Jan 2001 19:17:14 GMT
Original-From: 
Bill Edstrom, Jr. <billjr@edstrom.SPAMCAKEcom>
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The new Mindstorms RIS 1.5 set I gave my son for Christmas had a bad motor
right out of the box. The motor is just jammed up and will barely turn by
hand. I emailed Lego and they are sending me a new one (in up to 3 weeks!).

We couldn't wait to get started to I went to all the stores here looking for
any set with a motor and finally settled on the RoboSports expansion kit.

When are now building the vehicles in the main kit using the motor from
Robosports.

Anyway, I know have this bad motor. I can easily remove the guts with the
jammed motor. This looks like a great starting point for some sort of custom
sensor or actuator. Anyone have any ideas?


-Bill



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Use for Bad Lego Motor
 
(...) Wait until after you get the new motor from LEGO. Sometimes they WANT the old motor back. I seem to be the king of bad motors. (7 at last count out of 16) All DOA. Lego has asked for about half of them back. I have one motor that spins fine (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: Use for Bad Lego Motor
 
Even i have 3 motors that hardley move by hand I'm in india and i brought this kit and extra motors 1 1/2 years back ,, but i thought that as i just kept it like that and did not use it it got stuck . I never knew lego supplies bad motors ,, does (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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