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Re: Use for Bad Lego Motor
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 3 Jan 2001 03:40:23 GMT
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"Bill Edstrom, Jr." wrote:
> 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!).
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> 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.
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> When are now building the vehicles in the main kit using the motor from
> Robosports.
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> 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?
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> -Bill
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 until
you put a load on it, then it just squeaks. LEGO didn't want it back and it does
work as a generator so that's what I'm going to do. Get some free power from the
Wind.
Dean
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