Volts

September 6, 2011

Many of the LEGO sets have motors that run on batteries.
Today we are reading how many volts the batteries show on a multimeter.

Some batteries are not rechargeable and some are.

1.5 V is new. 1.2 V is old and not usable for RCX but ok for motorized machine sets.


How many batteries does it take to make a motor move?

One makes it move slowly.

Two does seem to be twice as fast.

3 make the motor go so fast it is hard to tell the difference in the full 6.
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