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Re: Laptop Tower Communications - not
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 4 May 2001 18:39:40 GMT
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Richard Clemens <CLEMENS@WVWC.nospamEDU>
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new batteries, no green light, Win2K or not
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Richard Clemens
clemens@wvwc.edu
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tilman Sporkert" <tilman@webmethods.com>
To: "Greg Frazier" <GREGORY.FRAZIER@saic.com>; "Richard Clemens"
<clemens@wvwc.edu>
Cc: <lego-robotics@crynwr.com>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 2:25 PM
Subject: RE: Laptop Tower Communications - not
> Greg,
> of course you tried putting in new batteries first, right? Most of • the
> tower problems can be resolved by putting in a new battery. The • green LED
> will still light up even if the battery is too weak to allow proper
> communications with the brick. And if the green LED is lit • constantly, the
> battery will be drained quickly.
> I've noticed this with Windows 2000 myself. On my Windows 2000 • desktop
> system (neither a DELL nor a laptop), the green LED would come on as • soon as
> I boot up the machine, even if I don't use any of the RCX software. • I ended
> up unplugging the tower.
>
> Tilman
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> ...
> I believe that I recently trashed two IR towers (it is possible that • it is
> my bricks that are the problem, but the nature of the failures • suggest that
> it is the towers). I believe that the culprit was a Dell Dimension • running
> Windows 2000. While trying to figure the problem out, I noticed • that towers
> plugged into the Dell had their green LED permanently on - the • laptop was
> attempting to constantly drive them.
> ...
>
> --
> Did you check the web site first?:
http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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| Greg, of course you tried putting in new batteries first, right? Most of the tower problems can be resolved by putting in a new battery. The green LED will still light up even if the battery is too weak to allow proper communications with the brick. (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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