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| the issue with nimh is that plain trickle charge is not appropriate. you must remove charge current when the cells are full charge. the HB charge circuit just doesn't do that. i'd really recommend switching back to nicad. fred In your message you (...) (24 years ago, 21-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| i'm not sure if wiring two nicad packs in parallel is a good idea. the packs would fight each other if either one's voltage varied even slightly from the other. i'd recommend either (1) John's initial suggestion of adding a separate pack solely for (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | A splendid time was had for all!
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| Hey everybody! I just wanted to say what a great time I had at the meet. Lots of new faces as well as many familiar ones. Quite a large amount of walk-ins, too! I think next time we may want to consider keeping a tighter lid on allowing the public (...) (24 years ago, 10-Dec-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| Taken from: (URL) Company ---...--- Want to know more about LEGO Company? Go to (URL) Direct ---...--- LEGO Direct was established to nurture the relationship with the core LEGO constituency and so help build the strongest brand in the world among (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.announce) !
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| hi. you can certainly tap the 9.6v batt output to power the sensor (use J13), but make *sure* that the sensor does not put out more than 5v, or you'll blow your analog inputs. if you're not sure, put a 1K resistor in series with the sensor's output (...) (24 years ago, 10-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| In my area Fred Meyer has the older Freestyle bucket 4128 on sale for half price $9.99 per bucket. There are a LOT of cool parts in this, so thought I should mention it. The sale is apparently only running through 11-4-00, so if you are interested (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| There's not much that can be done. IC 3.2 doesn't run on Win 3.1. Your choices are: * upgrade your laptop to W95. * downgrade your use of IC to the freeware version on all of your machines. Fred (...) version (...) it does (...) reason (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Fred Meyer is having a sale on Lego plus they have manufacturer's coupons in their toy book ad. This is important as other retailers may accept this coupon. The soccer bus can be bought for 11.99. K mart has BOGO 50% (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| Well, I know Russell didn't know what the Big Buy was, so that probably means there are more people who don't know. I don't know what it is either. Anybody? Fill us in. Fred - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Fred Yokel 2635 North First Street, (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| Hi Michael, (...) It's not that hard you are thinking ! check out this document and you'll see it's not that hard ! (URL)Do I still need to reprogram the HC11 chip? I only need 9600,n,8,1 settings (...) Depends on what handshake you're using. (...) (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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