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Problems with IR tower on laptop
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 14 Dec 1998 15:21:20 GMT
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My IR tower seems to work irratically with my Compaq LTE5300 laptop. It
doesn't seem to work very well at all when running off the laptop's batteries.
It seems to work better if I run it off AC, but I've still had failures then.
Anyone else have this problem?
Is the little green LED on the tower supposed to come on when it's
transmitting or when it is successfully communicating with the RCX?
Matt
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | RE: Problems with IR tower on laptop
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| I am using my IR tower with an ACER Extensa 357 and Windows'95. I do not have any problem, but as far as I know if you use the power saving, it is too posible to have problems with the serial connection. Try to disconnect the power saving features, (...) (26 years ago, 14-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Problems with IR tower on laptop
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| I have an almost identical laptop (LTE 5280, same hardware, different CPU) and the tower works just fine for me. The green LED seems to come on when the tower is powered up. It turns off to save batteries when it hasn't been used for a while (or (...) (26 years ago, 14-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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