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Re: Laptop Tower Communications - not
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 4 May 2001 18:50:14 GMT
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Greg Frazier <gregory.frazier@saic/Spamcake/.com>
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Yes, I replaced the batteries on both towers. The fact that both towers are
trashed with similar failure modes (although one now doesn't receive at all) and
stopped working at approximately the same time suggests an external agent
causing the failure. The only change in the use environment that I can ID is
the computer - I upgraded to the Win2k box. The sequence of failure is even
more suspicious; my at-home Mindstorm system failed, so I borrow the tower from
the system we're using at work for robotic research and verified that it was my
tower that was bad, and now the work system's tower is failing. My suspicion is
that, by unplugging the tower, you saved the tower from permanent damage.
Tilman Sporkert wrote:
> 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.
> ...
>
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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. (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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