Power Functions Details Available
As promised by Philo, the PF motor specifications are now made available. They can be found in BrickJournal 8. A total of 5 pages are dedicated to the new PF system. Thank you Philo, Didier Enjary, & BrickJournal.
UPDATE: Power Function sets are now available! Here are the set numbers to look up at LEGO.com: 4957 (the "Ferris Wheel") and 4958 (the "Monster Dino").
Comments
Davis
Chris
Remember also that the power achieved might be considerably lower than with non-rechargables.
My guess would be to use the PF extension wire (see page 63 of BrickJournal 8) with the NXT converter cable.
Kirk
An idea that would really be great for LEGO to implement would be for a new converter cable to be created that can send power from the NXT to the PF motor AND send signals from the encoder to the NXT -- all on one cable! In more detail, the converter cable would have 1 NXT RJ12 plug on one side (to plug in a one of the NXT's motor ports) and a PF motor output and encoder input on the other side.
Kirk
I updated the post to include the set numbers.
The link I previously provided should have worked, but it defaults to a more general page, hence there is no direct link to the sets, so I removed the link.
-Kirk
PF motors refer to all the Power Functions motors, PF XL is the name of the larger PF motor, and note that the smaller motor is called the PF Regular. These PF motors are not servos (but that would be nice if they were).