Super Fast LEGO Motor

A LEGO motor running at 18v instead of the normal 4.5v.

Check out our homepage:
http://l1design.110mb.com/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Lego
• Technic
• Dacta
• System
• Motor
• Motorized
• 18v
• 4.5v
• Fast
• Super
• L1
• Design
• Designs
• Pneumatic
• Minifig

[DJSI3434]

How many rpms is that thing doing

[L1Design]

@DJSI3434  I dont know. I dont have the lego speed computer or anything else that could measure its speed.

[DJSI3434]

Centriflicle force moves that wheel off

[L1Design]

@DJSI3434 yeah

[Zblj1987]

that poor motor...

[L1Design]

well...why not?

[magicfngrz]

@L1Design I really did it. Well i used a 9v hobby motor, an outlet, and a phone charger, but I really did it.

[L1Design]

@Midnight1XCoffee I know how water cooling works, the main problem with water cooling legos is that any part that you wanted to cool would have to be enclosed in a water tight box. Legos arent water right without gluing them and besides that making a water tight box around the parts that heat up would be pretty difficult. Since the motor cant get wet, i dont see how it would be possible to run an axle spinning at high speeds into the water box without it leaking all over the place.

[Midnight1XCoffee]

@L1Design Actually, I've done it before, its possible, but hurts the pocketbook, you have to use a water cooler, and have a tubing ststem. Study a water cooling system for a computer, its how mine worked.

Its all tubes..

[L1Design]

@Midnight1XCoffee Thanks but im not talking about using water to cool the motor. Its the other moving parts that start to heat up and melt eventually. These are the parts could use a water cool down. Using water probably wouldnt work anyways though because legos arent water tight.

[Midnight1XCoffee]

@L1Design Be careful, legos are like china shit, so they could short circuit easily. CAREFULLY PLAN THIS! ;)

[L1Design]

@Midnight1XCoffee Yeah im not that dumb. Besides, the legos cant handle much more speed than this anyways. I need to figure out a way to water cool the legos because if i run anything at full speed for more than like a minute the axles start to melt. I have melted a few so bad that they broke in half!