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(...) It should spin easily with just fingertips against the cross-axle. It should continue spinning several rotations on its own inertia from a fast initial spin. (25 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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 | | Re: Use for Bad Lego Motor
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(...) Wait until after you get the new motor from LEGO. Sometimes they WANT the old motor back. I seem to be the king of bad motors. (7 at last count out of 16) All DOA. Lego has asked for about half of them back. I have one motor that spins fine (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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 | | Re: Power inlet to RCX 1.5?
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(...) Short answer is yes. Check out this thread at Lugnet: (URL) 2) 130mA. Is that enough? I'm not sure how the RCX works internally, but the (...) Short answer is no. A single motor can draw 100mA. (25 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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 | | Using laptop IR Port instead of the IR Tower
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Hey folks, Has anyone been able to use a Thinkpad IR Port to talk to the RCX? I have been programming the RCX using spirit.ocx. All is well with the IR Tower connected to a serial port. I would like to get rid of the IR tower and use the built-in IR (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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 | | Re: Help! I think I nuked my IR transmitter!
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John Phillips here, I hope this comes out on the correct thread. I'm not quite sure how to post replies, if it does't any help on how to post replies would be appreciated. Monday after reading a few suggestions I thought I'd try again, well this (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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