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| savatheaggie@yahoo.com (Anthony Sava) wrote in <HvEr6z.1tEo@lugnet.com>: (...) Do you want the lights to be inside the rotating part? That will complicate things: you'd have to put a battery box in the rotating part as well. (21 years ago, 31-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general)
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| (...) An AC source isn't portable though! Anthony, you mentioned a substantial length of wire. Is the model static or moving? If it's static then a Train controller, RCX with AC socket or Control Center could do the job. The train controller can (...) (21 years ago, 31-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Hey, You are right, having more lights will slow the motor and dim the lights. But if you think about it, he want's to make fireplaces and I think dim lights (if not too dim) would work fine. Yeh, an AC source is almost always a must in this (...) (21 years ago, 31-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Anthony, Nice, clear question. You won't hurt your electric parts by running too little voltage through them. As you add lights, existing lights will get dimmer, the motor will run slower, and the batteries will not last as long. You MAY hurt (...) (21 years ago, 30-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general)
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| Hi, I'll be in the SF Bay area through Monday, and was wondering if anyone wanted to get together and talk LEGO? I won't be taking my usual traveling LEGO for this trip, but meeting other AFOL's in the area would be great. Drop me an email if you (...) (21 years ago, 30-Mar-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.cad)
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