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  • is it true that if you add more cogs with diffrently spaced teeth it will make the main moter do more rotation therefore creating more eletricity ?????????????????lol think i will buy an old washing machine to live in my shed made some sketch up model of the shed and how it will look :DDDDD

  • Kiwi ingenuity :)

  • @unclewooly you are correct, it is not possible to use these as a motor on DC without some fairly complicated electronics. You can make them run on single phase AC but still have to start them manually, and you have no control over speed

  • Thanks! Its a good

  • Your kids will be ahead when they start Science because they already know a little of the properties electricity - they've seen it in action. Great stuff.

    Cheers.

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  • im trying to generate electric to charge batterys what materials do i need ?

  • what kind of motor is this, it seems like it turn pretty easy,, why dont you extraxt it out of the machine build a windmill or sometin..

  • the best was your son :)

  • Thanks! Its a good safe toy for them, it has a rectifier so produces DC and can run small motors as well as lights. And it is really cheap and easy to make, took me about an hour and $40NZ. Both him and his brother know how it works but can't spin it fast enough to hurt themselves ;>)

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