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RE: Win2K and IR Tower
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Newsgroups:
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Mon, 7 May 2001 18:28:43 GMT
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Original-From:
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Sherwin Pelayo <(smpelayo@hotmail.com)AvoidSpam()>
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SPELAYO@avoidspamSVI.COM.PH
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Have been experiencing this too. I tried changing batteries but it didn't
work. Is there a fix somewhere so that W2K won't leave the IR tower's light
on?
Ralph, kindly inform us if you were successful in replacing the LED.
Thanks,
Sherwin
> From: "Ralph Hempel" <rhempel@bmts.com>
> Reply-To: "Ralph Hempel" <rhempel@bmts.com>
> To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
> Subject: RE: Win2K and IR Tower
> Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 14:18:21 GMT
>
> > 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.
>
> 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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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) Hmmm, this might get pretty nasty if Win2K is breaking our IR towers. Here's what TLG says about Win2K - it's not supported... (URL) However WinME _is_ supported.. (URL) Are there any WinME users out there and what is the situation with your (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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