Jumbo Servo Motor Current
This weekend I’ve been testing the motors for the Jumbo servo. Adding on from the last test, I put in the L298 H-Bridge module, rather than test with the motor, I used two LEDs wired back to back. This allowed
Posted in: Jumbo Servo
Tags: Electric Motors, Electronics, servo
Engine Repair
As mentioned in the article on battery charging, a ride on train was recently purchased a charity shop but it was not working.There were a few faults with it: The main power switch was not working. It was a two
Posted in: Repairs
Tags: Electric Motors, toy, train
3 interesting electric motors
When I was younger I would borrow books from the Library such as Usborne series and the Know How Book of Batteries and Magnets and then create things in my bedroom based on my notes taken from the books. Back
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Tags: Electric Motors
World’s first Stirling hybrid electric car
Deka Research have build a small prototype hybrid electric / stirling engine car based on the chassis of an old Ford Think. The advange of the “external combustion engine” is that it can be powered from many different fuels without
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Tags: Electric Motors, Hybrid Car, Stirling Engine
Clocks, robots and electric motors
An aspiration of many an model engineer is to make a clock. Roger Wood of Klockwerks has made hundreds of clocks in his livein workshop in an old munitions factory in downtown Toronto making a range of fabulous clocks. The
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Tags: Electric Motors, Historic, Model Engineering, Scrap
Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
