Review of Thames & Kosmos Solar Power

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I purchased nine of these to use at a middle school engineering camp, along with the physic discovery kits. I did not spend much time with the instructions but many interesting projects were constructed using the parts. Some of the parts are not very robust and can be difficult to take apart. The price is high for the included parts and they really should add a second regular battery holder to improve the speed of the included motor (it has one for the electric motor and one for charging a battery). Five stars if they get the price down or add some more parts.

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Quite a disapointment, solar panel isn't robust enough to drive the vehicle and even with all the gears lined up properly and using a battery pack it's quite anti-climatic. Not much educational value over any other build kit without a "solar panel" many of which are cheaper.

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I got this set and the wind powered set for my 8-year-old son who loves building, science, and mechanics. He's a wiz at Legos/Lego technic, building thousand-piece sets in a couple of hours, but he found this really frustrating because the pieces don't always fit together as the plans say they should. Then, once we managed to get the kit together the solar power is so week that the vehicle barely goes. They say you can combine sets to make more power, or use the battery back-up, but still it barely did anything, or wouldn't work because the pieces didn't fit together quite right (for example, in one case the gears didn't line up to fit together.)

Also, I initially had planned this project as a home schooling project, but the information about solar energy included in the kit's booklet is very minimal, so don't expect to learn a lot about solar energy by building this. The one thing we learned is that the amount of solar energy produced by this toy is insufficient to power it. For the record, my son still says this toy is fun, but he only picks it up once every couple of months, and always gets frustrated with it in the end. (p.s. this kit is NOT compatible with Lego)

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Great product and quality. I like so much. It is a good product and good price I would buy again. Thank you.

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these toy is good by all age help for understan who the sun, other form the energie best the oil,