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Re: Lego 9V motors work well?
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Date:
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Fri, 13 Feb 1998 18:45:18 GMT
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Richard Drushel <drushel@apkSTOPSPAM.net>
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[Greg Starr] spake unto the ether:
> What has been people's experience in using the Lego 9V motors with the
> Handyboard? I know they're overpriced, but they are easy to use...
Performance-wise, they are okay (i.e., they are powerful enough).
I don't like the short axle they have on them, though (compared to e.g. a
Mabuchi motor with a LEGO 2x drilled axle Super-Glued onto the motor shaft),
because gears (especially worm gears) slip off of them. With a longer
axle, you can use a half-bushing on either side of the gear to lock it down.
They are indeed terribly overpriced...just like the SPST switch in
a LEGO brick for $20, and the photoresistor in a LEGO brick for $26.
*Rich*
--
Richard F. Drushel, Ph.D. | "Aplysia californica" is your taxonomic
Department of Biology, Slug Division | nomenclature. / A slug, by any other
Case Western Reserve University | name, is still a slug by nature.
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7080 U.S.A. | -- apologies to Data, "Ode to Spot"
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