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Win2K and IR Tower
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 7 May 2001 13:11:54 GMT
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Hi All,
I've been following the thread about Win2K leaving the tower
green light on all the time. I was wondering about this myself...
It seems that my tower has very poor range ever since I used
it on my Win2K laptop. Does anyone else have similar experience?
Also, I found that in my experiments, some towers are better
at transmitting random bytes that others. Also, the scheme
that LEGO developed to "balance" the bits in a transmission
is very effective in increasing the range of reliable messages.
Let's see if we can compile some experience with the IR towers.
Cheers, Ralph Hempel
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| (...) Once again, John Barnes and others point out that the first symptom of impending tower failure is reduced range. John *speculates* that this may be due to overheating the LED. The LED is easily replaced, I'm now considering doing that to see (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.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. (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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