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Re: Battery drain just to run a program?
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Date: 
Thu, 24 Oct 2002 10:11:25 GMT
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lego-robotics@crynwr.com writes:

Does it take a lot of battery power just to run a leJOS
program?

I think a switched on RCX that doesn't use sensors or motors
draws ca 10mA, regardless of the program running.
That's enough to drain batteries in a few days.

Jürgen

--
Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr>
http://www.loria.fr/~stuber/



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