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What are these three things attached to my toy motor?

Asked by digitalimpression (9915points) November 28th, 2012

So I got a wild hair that I wanted to help my son build a wind powered LED. I have a toy motor and on the back are 3 solder spots attached in a sort of triangle with wire and attached on each “leg” of the triangle are 3…... pods? I don’t know what you call them. I don’t know if they are resistors or what?

Long story short, I’d like to know how I need to hook up the LED to the motor to make it light when the motor spins. I’m not very good with electronics as you can tell. =)

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