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| | | I recently purchased an IR tower to use with my Scout. It did not come with a cable, but the tower was only 6$(www.eblok.com), so I found a cable that could plug into the back of it. The other end of the cable fit into the printer plug on the back (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: IR Tower problems —Dean Husby
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| | | | | (...) Eep!!! Not PRINTER port but the SERIAL port. You'll damage your Port and maybe the IR tower as well! Try it in the SERIAL port and it will work much better. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: IR Tower problems —Rainer Balzerowski
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| | | | | (...) Hi Greg, I'm not sure if the RCX IR Tower is the same than the Scout Tower, but I guess it's so. You can't use the printer port (LPT) for the tower. You have to use a serial port (COM1, COM2, ..). If you're not sure if you've got the right (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: IR Tower problems —Trevor Foley
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| | | | (...) I think it could probably work with the printr port. But what I would do is get a serial to printer port adapter or buy another wire which ever is cheapest. I have a wire that runs out the serial port with a 25 pin(i think) connection then an (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: IR Tower problems —Rainer Balzerowski
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| | | | (...) Don't try this at home kids !!!...!!! NO ! This can't work !! The printerport is as parallel port and not a serial port. The availablity of the IR-tower is checked by using the serial handshake line. This can't work with printerport ! (...) I (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: IR Tower problems —Martin
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| | | | (...) BTW, this is not true on all hardware, but usually is true on PCs, which is of course what we care about right now. Serial ports are male (IE, have pins in them rather than holes) because part of the RS-232 specification is that you should be (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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