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cfabe:
The lights have a much higher resistance than the motor, so it worked as a voltage divider with the lights getting most of the voltage. If the motor was 1 ohm and the light was 6 ohms, the lights would see 10 volts and the motor only 2 volts.

280plus:
Ah, that makes sense. The lights were bright because they were using up more than 6V but there wasn't enough left to run the motors. I see said the blind man. Thanks for bearing with me!

Yup, I figgered it out. The field windings on the motors must have next to nothing for resistance. The lights just had way too much resistance in relation to the motors for it to work that way.

I'm STILL learning something new every day...

One of these days my head may just explode from all the knowledge stuffed in there though. It won't be pretty.

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