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Subject: 
Re: It's Alive! or, Building The Dinosaur
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.technic, lugnet.general
Date: 
Thu, 28 Dec 2000 17:26:33 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Ralph Hempel writes:
Thanks Ralph.  I took pictures of the jack and the adapter and
posted them at
the end of the picture set:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=24825
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=24826

The jack says "9-12V" next to it.  The plug for the adapter looks like any
ordinary adapter.  The adapter says on it:
PRI: 230V - 50 Hz
SEC: 10V - 7 VA

Great! It's just like a Mindstorms jack. There is also a "~" symbol next
to the 9-12V marking, which means you can supply any polarity you like.
They do, after all, have to make it kid-proof!

I'd recommend RadioShack 273-1656A. It's a 9V 800mA adapter and I use it
for Mindstorms work all the time. The older motors used more current under
heavy load, so it's worth a couple of extra bucks for an 800mA unit.

Good luck and have fun!

Cheers,

Ralph Hempel - P.Eng

Thanks Ralph, that's very helpful!  I'll go get one ASAP.  Seems like
everything we got this year takes batteries so it'd be nice to get something
running on power :-)


Cheers, Heather
--
Heather Patey
St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Pirate Wench / Brick Detective / Mad Scientist



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  Re: It's Alive! or, Building The Dinosaur
 
(...) Glad to know that it has arrived:) Why not call Lego consumer service? My guess is that they'll be happy to replace it (Which I've allready told you:)) Kind regards John Jensen (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.technic)

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  RE: It's Alive! or, Building The Dinosaur
 
(...) Great! It's just like a Mindstorms jack. There is also a "~" symbol next to the 9-12V marking, which means you can supply any polarity you like. They do, after all, have to make it kid-proof! I'd recommend RadioShack 273-1656A. It's a 9V 800mA (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general)

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