Yahoo! I got my Mindstorms at last :-) So I've taken the day off to celebrate. Predictably, I got the CyberMaster set on Friday, and the letter saying I should pick up the Mindstorms on Saturday. It's all happening here, I tell you. So now I use (...) (26 years ago, 11-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics)
(...) Hint: think carefully before assuming that the TO220 BJT on the output can take 5A indefinitely. After about 15 minutes it overheated a little. Luckily it went open circuit, so I still have the nicads. Not happy, now I'm forced back to 24 hour (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics)