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RE: Win2K and IR Tower
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 7 May 2001 14:18:21 GMT
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> Hi All,
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> I've been following the thread about Win2K leaving the tower
> green light on all the time. I was wondering about this myself...
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> It seems that my tower has very poor range ever since I used
> it on my Win2K laptop. Does anyone else have similar experience?
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> 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.
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 if
there is any improvement.
Cheers, Ralph
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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