8293-1: Motor Set

Power up your LEGO' Power Functions!

Add even more power to your LEGO TECHNIC creations! Power Functions motor set includes a motor, battery box, light cable, pole switch and additional pieces to add new functions and features to your motorized models.

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A good basic motor set

Posted by superjohn in United Kingdom on 13 April 2009

I bought this for my son, and we have motorised everything! With the brilliant switch you can build machines which change direction when the reach an obstacle which is cool.

The motor is reasonably powerful, the lights add fun, and the batteries last for ages. Adding a slip cog (clutch) to the kit is a great idea.

Now for the downsides:

1) The leads are a bit delicate, the motor lead already had an internal fault so I had to shorten it (this is NOT easy!!)

2) The motor could do with lego bumps on the top to give more mounting options

3) The battery box is HUGE so it's hard to integrate into smaller sets. It takes 6xAA batteries.

4) The battery box has no lego bumps for mounting and the mounting points on the ends have an inconvenient 3M spacing with a 1/2M offset to the edge of the box. Very awkward and always tricky to mount.

5) The centre OFF position of the battery box switch can be tricky to find when you want to switch off in a hurry

But I'm being really fussy here, it's a good set. It just could be slightly better.

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Not so great, but perfect addition to 8295

Posted by Semantic in Russian Federation on 15 November 2008

At first this set looks kind of disappointing because of the small number of parts for rather a big price.
Compared to 8287, which included plenty of useful gearing, axles, transmission parts, etc., we get only one clutch gear, one 24-gear, and surprisingly three 5-long axles, three 8-gear (not one) and three (again not one) new 3-long u-joints.
Also the M-sized PF motor is not so powerful as the motor in 8287.
But as a perfect addition we get lights and a pole-reverser, which is the first time in years in a Technic set.
Lights are okay, not so bright, but so they will not eat all the power in a small time.
Pole-reverser has three positions (including neutral) and additional direction switch. Difference between positions is approximately 15 degrees.

This set is perfect and must have addition for this year sets (8294, 8295). You get friendly operation of their functionality, and not to rotate gear manually which is annoying. Lights also give a nice touch.

Personally I wish that the set included additional PF connection wire, because I have had several times where the length of cables attached to PF motors was not enough. It would be very useful, at least here in Russia where we can't order parts from S@H. Okay, asking for linear actuator (we also can't buy marvelous 8294 set here :( It is too much, I know. :)

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