It is possible the battery inside the Energy Storage unit is dead, it is 14 years old after all. Also any Power Functions motor should be able to generate power if you crank it, it's not an exclusive feature of the E motor.

Its actually so cool that LEGO has made sets like this, it almost opens a whole new world of possibilities with LEGO 😃 Also, great video man, informative and entertaining 👌👍

Those batteries are NiCad (Nickel Cadmium,) they require you to charge them on the wall to 100 % then discharge them to 0% BEFORE using renewable charging or else you destroy the cells and it won't hold a charge.

any motor can also generate electricity

Any motor can generate electricity, the E-motor was just designed to do so more efficiently than other LEGO motors. Unfortunately it's actually pretty crap as a motor, doesn't have good torque or speed or size, so it's a good thing it's better than any other motor at being a generator, it's otherwise pointless to use. As for the on switch, I'd try holding it down for a bit, kinda like how NXTs need a second to turn on. The orange dial probably controls polarity, and having it in the center is a "stop" position, which is probably why you couldn't get it to do anything.

At my old high school we had 6 of those sets and 6 pneumatic sets btw I was in the support unit that is why we don’t have many. The number in the middle of the screen is the charge percentage. And the pneumatic set you need to find that out on your own :) have fun.

Great video! I have a small 20 watt solar panel with a charge controller I’m gonna make a little renewable energy generator.

6:30 the big gear is a 40 tooth and the small is the 8 tooth so the ratio is 1:5 or one rotation of the 40 is 5 rotations of the 8

This is awesome! Hopefully LEGO will do a re-release or something similar again in the future. Would love to attempt a solar train ☀️🚅

I say go steam ya go back to steam trains!!!😂

I have 3 of those sets lol. Did not even know they were so expensive.

Make a part 2 please! And try to place the windmill on the car, and next time check so the gears work before you try the new stuff. Great video!

Next vid idea:how many Lego solar panels dose it take to charge a Tesla?

You missed something. The battery is so old, it is uselessly dead. The battery is deceased. You need to replace it.

At one point the motors will wear out though

i'm in middle school and we used to have these until a pipe had busted above were all the electrical Lego sets were and they were all destroyed (it was in 2015) now we have these wimpy Lego robots and in one of the missions it was supposed to lift a bar to release a energy unit but the robots were so weak that they couldn't lift the bar i can't find a correct photo online but i remember is is the Lego spike prime

Every Lego motor is actually a E motor. Test it. Two lego motors connected. Works.

All I can do is rather reccomend Fischertechnik, they even have Hydrogen storage using Fuel Cells.

lego spike, ever heard of it?

Honestly Lego should bring back these sets for younger generations and maybe or older ones to

Now you found a dinamo grate work

Part 2

Next thing you know, Lego releases Nuclear Power Plant sets that actually produce power lol. 😂

Buy more solarpanel and Sack then on The energypack

Give Africa and places with no power every Lego set and they’ll have a free renewable electricity grid

I'm pretty sure any motor can technically make energy if spun

Ayo what? Lego made a more efficient solar panel for kids than the hundred dollar solar panel phone battery chargers?

5:53 that is the way i do it

If you connect an old style square motor directly to another one it can turn the second motor as you turn the first one. My son made a crane control using this method.

You know what if you took the solar panel off and attached the windmill to the top of the car instead so if you were to push it to get the windmill spinning or spin the windmill with a little starter setup to get the windmill spinning the car would prob move faster therefore spinning the windmill faster. Faster the windmill = more energy generated faster and the faster the windmill goes the faster the car goes and the way to stop it could be to replicate a disk brake setup but on the windmill somewhere so when you need to stop some sort of lego rubber peice could be pressed up against a lego disk and then it would slowly slow it down until it stops moving This was just an idea i had i thought would be a cool video idea 😂

17:07 it looks like a Mars Rover. Even the speed mqtched

always wanted this set when i was 8

Finally, a set with Power functions E motor

Just discoverd this guy now one of my fav youtubers

I need this set I never thought lego would actually do this snd it would fit with my houses or at least trying to make my own replica or interpretation of the 3td generation Toyota Prius

In Germany it costs only 15 $

Yoo this set is insane ! Lego made this masterpiece.Btw I subed w vid

Would like to see a video on the education pneumatic set

So this is how I find out Lego Power Functions was discontinued years ago lol

My brother had one of these and i thought it woa sooooo cool🎉

I actually have this set, i thought that i got ripped off because i couldnt figure out how to use it and i thought you had to have a NXT Brick. Btw it might be a little hard to charge.

replace the batt if u can make a guide on it thanks for the contribution!

You know, what if you change the crank for the motor and spin the gear a bit and see what happens.. its at 8:04

why do you need to save the planet, but that toolkit is useful for independent creations. ie off-the-grid type. dont depent on others for your stuff.

You know they’ve been making sets like this since the 90s right?

You should connect the crank to a motor and have the motor generate power to the crank that then powers the motor 🤣 Ya, I'm pretty sure that won't work

Maybe you didn’t rotate the orange direction of power on the box with the battery

dang i rlly want this now

This is tranquil and has this wind science type electricity. 🤍☀🖱 이것은 고요하고 이 풍력 과학 유형의 전기를 가지고 있습니다.

¿No hay ninguna manera de "actualizar" el sistema de los sets de energía renovable? Is there no way to "upgrade" the renewable energy sets system?

I have a amazing idea i need the E motor 3 times and then...

I didn't see that Lego wind turbine on your site

infinite power strat you use one motor to another one spins for electricity and other spins gears for the other to get electrisicy

The AC was at a very nice temperature 😂😂

40 tooth to 8 tooth is 5:1

Cool

I want this

Its so sad seeing everybody say guys we could save the planet for the last 2 decades and it being THE SLOWEST PROCESS ON EARTH. What the actual EFFF. I hate politics, i hate so much of what we've created. You know how hot it is today? 94°. Real feel 105°. Climate cha cha cha changin.

Question. Can you charge the lego batteries renewably?

I have this set you need to press the green button after you take away from charging

4:01 literally every motor does that?

use a gear ratio on the windmill

9:50 I'm gonna ask completely unrelated question, what is the music in here?

Now then you should improve your train

Free feet 16:34

nah bro this stuff is so easy to understand if you know how to do it. Or just figure it out…

If you ever want to sell this? Please let me know.

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how many amps, hello????

Why not modify a cheap solar usb battery to lego?

I have this set I think it costed like 75$ 😅

Soo cool!g can you bring me that set please

Dose it come with technic pins

Awsome

its a fricking solar panel. clickbait

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i have one

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