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Subject: 
Re: Power inlet to RCX 1.5?
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 2 Jan 2001 23:36:52 GMT
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lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Raoul Sullivan) writes:

I have a power supply that gives 9.3 volts and can give 130mA. Just 3
questions -

2) 130mA. Is that enough? I'm not sure how the RCX works internally, but the
motors run fine on the supply, and I assume that they are going to be the
biggest draw on the power supply. (Assumption is the mother of all
screw-ups)

The motors without any load don't draw much current.
I guess that 130mA is not enough if you really make them work hard.

Jürgen

--
Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr>
http://www.loria.fr/~stuber/



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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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