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RE: Win2K and IR Tower - WinME too?
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Tue, 8 May 2001 00:19:35 GMT
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John Hansen wrote:
> 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 have misunderstood the previous messages. Is it Spirit
> that seems to be continually driving the LED when used on a PC
> running W2K?
No, just plug the IR tower into a serial port of a PC running Win2K
with nothing but the desktop showing. The green LED comes on, but
I'm not sure if the IR led is energizer or not...
Cheers, Ralph
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Win2K and IR Tower - WinME too?
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| (...) Use a video camera to see if any IR is being produced, then you will know that it is damaging the LED's or not. How exactly are they damnaged anyway? They are supposed to last practically forever, right? Andy -- See my Visual Interface for (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Win2K and IR Tower - WinME too?
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| (...) I don't have any first hand exprience with this, although a few people have reported that when using NQC on Win2K the IR tower's green LED stays on. I went over the NQC serial code very thoroughly, and I'm confident NQC is closing the serial (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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