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Subject: 
Re: Win2K and IR Tower - WinME too?
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 8 May 2001 03:14:37 GMT
Original-From: 
Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail(stopspammers).net>
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Andy Gombos wrote:

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?

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).

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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 (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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