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Subject: 
Re: Power inlet to RCX 1.5?
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 2 Jan 2001 16:16:05 GMT
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Carsten Müller <spirou@mobile.+SayNoToSpam+de>
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Raoul Sullivan wrote:

I have a power supply that gives 9.3 volts and can give 130mA. Just 3
questions -
3) How the hell do I connect the power supply to the RCX? The contacts for
the batteries are not arranged in a "normal" manner - in other words, it is
as if each battery is linked in individually - I can't tell if they are all
linked in series, although they must be.

Yes, they are linked in series.
Have a look at http://graphics.stanford.edu/~kekoa/rcx/parts.jpg


Aktualy the picture shows a RCX 1.0 The 1.5 design is sligtly different
but the battery box is the same.

greatings Carsten

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  Re: Power inlet to RCX 1.5?
 
maybe not as fun, but you could just by an RCX that has an ac adapter jack: (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: Power inlet to RCX 1.5?
 
I have a power supply that gives 9.3 volts and can give 130mA. Just 3 questions - 1) Presumably the RCX can take 9.3 volts? It's not much over 9V... (Sound of frying RCX) 2) 130mA. Is that enough? I'm not sure how the RCX works internally, but the (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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