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Re: How real should it be?
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lugnet.technic
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Tue, 19 Mar 2002 11:48:16 GMT
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On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 01:27:52 GMT, "Todd" <ToddASchroeder@aol.com>
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> Hi Tobbe. I know exactly how you feel. In building my CAT 797 frame and
> steering I geared it down quite slow because I knew the end result would be
> a heavy model. In real life these trucks don't move very fast anyway. During
> Christmas I took the model to my family Christmas party. I let my brother
> and nephew play with it. They told me that it doesn't move fast enough. I
> explained to them why I geared it down so slow. I came back home and changed
> the gears to make it go faster. After I did it performed extremely well. It
> would drive pretty fast and steer very well for a big frame. After I
> completed the model it would barely move since I had the higher gearing in.
Ugh, this is so frustrating when it happend. I tried my setup with
some weights on the frame but I should have realized how heavy it
becomes when everything is in place :(
> So now I need to change the gearing back to the original. I wish Lego would
> make their motors at least 5 times more powerful. It would be nice to have a
> large model drive close to the speed as those plastic model race cars. I
> looked at buying bigger motors but you would need to buy different gears,
> battery pack, servos, controller, etc. Before you know it you wouldn't have
> a Lego vehicle anymore. The whole point for me at least is that my models
> are 100% Lego.
I have servos in most of my MOC's but I only use them to operate
levers etc. e.g. replacing human interfereing with servo interfering.
/Tobbe
http://www.arnesson.nu/lotek/
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