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Re: Win2K and IR Tower - WinME too?
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 7 May 2001 23:17:23 GMT
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John Hansen wrote:
> In lugnet.robotics, Ralph Hempel writes:
> > Hmmm, this might get pretty nasty if Win2K is breaking our IR towers. • [snip]
> > Are there any WinME users out there and what is the situation with
> > your IR towers. Does the green light always stay on?
If the green LED is on, and data line is held low, no IR is produced by the tower, so it will not harm the LED's.
(I keep my tower alive for hours and I can't see any degradation)
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> I have W2K and WinME on my PC at home. Neither of these operating systems
> drive the green LED on my IR tower continually. At work I have W2K and
> there, too, it does not continually drive the LED.
But I think you use your own serial comm driver instead of spirit.ocx?
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> John Hansen
Stef Mientki
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 | | Re: Win2K and IR Tower - WinME too?
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| (...) My understanding of the IR tower issue that is being discussed here is that simply plugging the IR tower into a serial port on a machine running W2K is causing the LED to turn on and stay on continuously so long as the PC is operating. I may (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Win2K and IR Tower - WinME too?
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| (...) [snip] (...) I have W2K and WinME on my PC at home. Neither of these operating systems drive the green LED on my IR tower continually. At work I have W2K and there, too, it does not continually drive the LED. John Hansen (24 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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