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I think you misuderstood what Larry said (or I misunderstood what you
said). I think Larry was saying that you should use the wall wart from
the train speed regulator, which is what Lego recommends. Also, I dont
see how you could burn out the diodes in the rectifier.* All the
discrete diodes in the RCX are 1N4002s, which can transmit at least 1
amp. However thay could have used a monolithic rectifier, but I dont
think Lego would produce anything that would fail like that.
*If youve done it, and youre sure thats what happened, then I stand
corrected.
Ross Crawford wrote:
> In lugnet.technic, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> > The wall wart from a speed reg can also power an RCX that has the power
> > connector
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> You can do this but it's not recommended. As the RCX 1.0 has a bridge
> rectifier on the power input, it's recommended you use a 10v AC supply, to
> avoid buring out the diodes.
>
> ROSCO
>
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