Subject:
|
Re: Win2K and IR Tower - WinME too?
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.robotics
|
Date:
|
Tue, 8 May 2001 01:07:15 GMT
|
Original-From:
|
Andy Gombos <gombos_2000@yahoo.com&AvoidSpam&>
|
Viewed:
|
731 times
|
| |
|
|
Ralph Hempel wrote:
> 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...
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 leJOS at http://lvi.sourceforge.net
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Win2K and IR Tower - WinME too?
|
| (...) Maybe Lego are deliberately overdriving them in an attempt to get more range - in the sure and certain knowledge that they won't be left turned on for long enough to damage them? (Erm - well - theoretically that is). (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.robotics)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | RE: Win2K and IR Tower - WinME too?
|
| (...) 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 (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.robotics)
|
20 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
