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Re: 8448 Street Sensation Racing - Are you game?
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:23:47 GMT
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Tilman Sporkert wrote:
> An electric motor in
> general does not benefit from a switchable mechanical gear box. You will
> notice that electrically driven vehicles (train engines, golf carts) usually
> don't have a such a thing.
What about adding a real combustion engine and control the throttle with
the RCX?
This would indeed add a new dimension to LEGO...
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| HI everybody I think this would be a GREAT idea. Lego Racing......wow!!!!! However Would you need to use the 8448 or could you just build a car from the ground up! i think that this would be even more of a challange. Come to think of it i think i (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: 8448 Street Sensation Racing - Are you game?
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| The problem with the 8448 is that the Lego motor is not powerful enough to do any "racing", or take advantage of the gear box. If you use a single motor and a battery box, then the 8448 moves rather slowly on smooth surfaces only. If you shift the (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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