Electric Circuit Learning Kit

Hours of fun and comes in a nice box.

Nice beginners set. My son is doing circuits with his homeschooling and these arrived the very next day. Allowing him to put into practice the simple experiments. Simple enough for the basics. But extras, not to build the plane as shown no instructions or manual and really not the best components. For building a toy vehicle. Great for simple circuits .

Bought for a 10 year old I wondered about this. However, she enjoyed various activities using it and working alongside her father.

I'd give it MINUS one star if I could. OK, you can make a wheeled cart but there's nothing in the box to help you fit anything to it -- even a few extra screws would have helped. It's got five bulbs and one holder, perhaps useful because they can be difficult to get hold of nowadays. Two unmountable switches -- they are designed as a push in fit into a rectangular cut out, which is not present on the baseboard. Two motors, arcanely described as 'red' and 'white'. Is there any difference between them -- we are not told -- maybe one of them is a stepper. who knows? A couple of battery holders and a few fragile fan blades. Oh -- there's the dodgy rheostat too. And of course the virtually unusable connecting wires. At each end they have a crocodile clip with insulation so slippery that it slides around whenever you try to open them, almost impossible for kids to use. And none of the electrical components has a decent sized lug to attach them to anyway, mostly tiny terminals which the clips just fall off as soon as anything moves. And finally there are the unusable gears, sixty of them. There are no shafts to mount them to and if there were, there is nothing to mount the shafts to. So do not expect to drive your cart's wheels through a gear chain from the motor. Finally, I nearly forgot -- there are the instructions that are just a bad joke.

Concept is good but spoiled by poor execution. Insulation on crocodile clips slips around so younger fingers can't get them to work. Motors are good for demonstrating the principle but lack the power to make the fan operated car shown on their website work. There's a whole pack of gears but no way of using them. Might by some steel shafts and make some brackets to enable gears to be demonstrated to grandson.

So I bought this for my 5yo as he is into motors and had wired one to a battery. So though this would be the next step. Arrived in a plastic bag, not ideal as most will know a 5yo will take everything out and you would want at least a box you can put it all back in. I found the set really disappointing as there was one board to which I assumed you mount the different items (bulbs, buzzer, motors, wheels etc) what was sad was they only supplied 8 small screws which for the first project was fine to mount the wheels, but no other screws or mounts for the batter or switch. I’m quite creative and resourceful but mean I would either have to rummage for small screws, glue gun (semi permanent), to mount any of the other items. I ended up using bluetac. I would recommend buying the items individually as the price paid was way over the contents value. Literally item value was £6-7. Not ideal when you have an excited child ready to go and having to find additional items to get it to work.

I found the crocodile clips difficult to use because of the covering. A great "toy" to introduce simple electronics. I would recommend it.

Bought this for my 8 year old as an intro to circuits and electricity. He enjoyed making a simple lighting circuit and then we made a motor powered windmill with a couple of pulleys! 😄 Great fun for a tenner!

Bastante completo para hacer proyectos básicos

Meine Enkel, 5 und 7 Jahre, waren absolut begeistert. Kann ich weiterempfehlen

È piaciuto tantissimo a mio figlio, ottimo x iniziare a scoprire la corrente elettrica ed i suoi utilizzi

Alldeles för lätt för en åttaåring.

Great little kit that we used for our homeschool introduction to Electrical Circuits. Sadly, there were no instructions that could assist with utilising all of the interesting pieces, but it certainly served its purpose well enough to create some circuits for observation.