DT-2400 Light Frieghter moc

[King Kahuka]

Just uploaded photos of this.

This DT-2400 is owned by a small-time smuggler Jex Hantiir. He drives around, smuggling illegal spice and munitions.

I built this ship for one purpose only, to test a light-up hand-powered thruster system, with no battery boxes needed.

You can attach a hand crank to the nub here:

When the hand crank is turning, two things happen. First, the pulley piece on the back spins fast. Second, the fiber-optic brick inside lights up each one of it's lights in a circular motion. If it's kinda dark in the room, it looks really cool.

The faster you turn, the faster the lights spin around. This is an absolutely crappy picture of it, but you get the idea.

This is the inside system. You can see one motor and the hand crank axle, connected and geared for speed. What you can't see is the other motor. I discovered, if you connect two motors together and turn one, the other outputs power to anything connected to it, and it turns the shaft on the other motor. The second motor you can't see is connected to the first motor, and also to the light brick. The shaft of the second motor is connected to the light brick also. So when you turn the hand crank, it turns the first motor, which provides power and power output to the second motor, powering and spinning the light brick.

For more pics, click here.

That's all, folks!

-Dr. X/King Kahuka

[Siegfried]

Very cool idea! I've been meaning to try out using a motor as a generator for a while... but I've always been concerned that it might damage it. This almost belongs in Technic... but the ships pretty cool too! Great work.

[Guss]

your ship is nice, but your "light-up hand-powered thruster system" is awesome ! it's a really good idea! 14/10 for you

[King Kahuka]

Thanks guys!

And I don't think it does damage it, I made this a few weeks ago and it's been spinned a lot since then, and still works fine.

It's really good if you're missing a battery box or don't have room for one.

[Axle]

Wow, this looks like a flying version of my first tank here: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=21367

Very nice! I like it! I for some reason love vehicles like this.

[KimT]

Great MOC with an awesome playability feature.

LEGO should consider something like this instead of always making it too easy or stupid.

[Skipper 24]

Very nice MOC. I may try that motor thing myself. What is the inside of the cockpit like?

[maiq the liar]

i like it! it looks like roger wilco's ship from space quest III....