ReZourceman Posted March 28, 2008 Posted March 28, 2008 Okay, so there is a problem with my motor from the At-At set. The battery pack is fine. If you click it on with nothing plugged in then it lights up. The problem occurs when you plug the motor in. If its on you can see as soon as you plug it in the light goes off on the battery pack. Ive tried switching on and off, both directions, and unplugging whilst on, off, medium, upside down! I assume its a faulty motor, but I thought Id come here first, anyone know the problem? Quote
simonwillems Posted March 28, 2008 Posted March 28, 2008 That seems to me like a short circuited motor... Have you tried powering anything else with the batterypack? That way you can see whether the motor is to blame or the batterypack. We had a discussion about the receivers in this topic but that had little to do with the motors themselves. I would call Lego if I were you. Good luck! Quote
Shadows Posted March 28, 2008 Posted March 28, 2008 While I haven't actually tried this on mine, what it sounds like you did is operate it with no load, then suddenly full load and may have burned something out. I wouldn't really recommend using anything that way (large scale generators, for example, warn against such use) and hope that isn't how it's supposed to be used or someone at LEGO has dropped the ball. As simon says (uh...), contact LEGO and let them know what happened. I'm sure they'll replace it, and perhaps in the future they'll issue some kind of warning against that. Quote
ReZourceman Posted March 28, 2008 Author Posted March 28, 2008 While I haven't actually tried this on mine, what it sounds like you did is operate it with no load, then suddenly full load and may have burned something out. I wouldn't really recommend using anything that way (large scale generators, for example, warn against such use) and hope that isn't how it's supposed to be used or someone at LEGO has dropped the ball.As simon says (uh...), contact LEGO and let them know what happened. I'm sure they'll replace it, and perhaps in the future they'll issue some kind of warning against that. Thanks guys, yeah I figured Id have to contact LEGO but was hoping for a quick fix. ;) Cheers again. Quote
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