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LEGO Technic is more than just RC vehicles. It's also about the experience of building, the discovery of how things work, and to lean techniques to allow you to build things exactly the way you want (within the physical limits of the plastic, non-lubricated parts). RC is a part of the experience, but not all of it. So, if all you want an RC vehicle that is fast, powerful and can climb obstacles well, get a non-LEGO RC vehicle.
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Dear Mr. Correia, final and definite evidence has come to light regarding your complete insanity, of the Totally Bonkers variety. You are hereby requested to institutionalise yourself at a mental care facility, and to surrender the totality of your LEGO Technic collection to the person most qualified to take proper care of it, that person being me.
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My fear is that all that weight in the front and so little in the rear will make it topple easily when braking and/or going downhill. For example, Sariel's video of the modded Crawler going down stairs would certainly go a lot worse if he used the B-shell instead of the A-shell. [edit] And I agree that the rear looks simply awful.
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You can control PF motors from the NXT, but you won't have the servo feedback NXT motors have. To connect each motor, you have either the choice of getting a PF extension cable (to convert from PF to 9V) and an NXT convert cable (to convert from 9V to NXT), or take a PF wire and an NXT one, cut them, then splice together one connector of each type. Or you can get a HiTechnic IR Link for the NXT, and then control the PF motor with a separate battery box and PF IR receiver.
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2h 2012 models
AVCampos replied to TAFOL's topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling
Without having it in my hands I can't be sure, but I suspect the problem will be more keeping the tires from rubbing against the mudguards/chassis than power. -
2h 2012 models
AVCampos replied to TAFOL's topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling
Usually, the problem with too many motors draining power is that excessive current is requested from the batteries. Connecting battery boxes in series will increase the voltage, not the current. Therefore, you'll need to connect the battery boxes in parallel (which is already possible with some creative use of PF extension wires), not in series. However, all this is supposing you're connecting the motors directly to the battery boxes (or via a polarity switch), instead of via an IR receiver. In that case, the receiver is the bottleneck, because there's a limit on the current it can provide from the battery to the motors: according to the PF specs document, each receiver supplies enough current for 4 M-motors, 2 XL-motors or 2 M-motors and 1 XL-motor. -
8288 Crawler Crane
AVCampos replied to PlaneCrazy's topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling
In the past, LEGO used strong, thick string, but recently, for some reason, we now only get the thin and fragile one. I miss the old one! There also used to exist an extra-thick string, used as a fire hose for the 8280 Fire Engine.