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Time to jump in....
The FOS uses a small surface mount LED. It's about 2.5mm x 3 mm and
mounted to a thin PCB. There are what look like diodes and what I would
guess are current limiting resistors on the board also, so good luck trying
to have multiple colors. The back of the PCB has two rings commutating the
voltage to the board. Interestingly, the led voltage is turned off during
the times the LED isn't facing a hole in the grey plastic block. The
battery wire attaches to the top of the two wiper fingers.
Jeffrey Hazen
North Mill Technology
jeffrey.hazen@northmill.net
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From: kirk [SMTP:kirk@wni.com]
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 4:06 PM
To: lugnet.market.shopping@lugnet.com; lugnet.robotics.rcx@lugnet.com;
lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com; lugnet.technic@lugnet.com
Subject: Re: Is Extreme Creatures Good? FOS stuff
Has anyone cracked opened one of the FOS units?
What is the light source? I assume that there is only one light source
that
is somehow distributed by the rotary action.
If the source is an LED, has anyone attempted to change the color?
kirk
"Sean Harrington" <harrington@macgenius.com> wrote in message
news:G1yvst.3yz@lugnet.com...
> I got Extreme Creatures about a month ago when it was last on special at • S@H
> for $25. I guess for the Fibre Optic unit and the collection of parts, • it's not
> a bad price.
>
> As far as I can tell, it's the only way you can get the FOS main unit • from
> Lego. They offer replacement fibre elements 5227 through service parts, • but not
> the main unit. You can always check eBay for either the FOS Multi Set
8456
or
> the Space Shuttle 8480, but either will be MUCH more than $25.
>
>
> - Sean
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