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| | | (...) Philo, I want to attempt the conversion to an external power source. I have looked at your page but I have a few questions. Please forgive me that I know next to nothing about electric power and electronics -- or so it seems. - Your regulated (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: External power supply ? —Philippe Hurbain
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| | | | | Hi Ken, (...) Maximum RCX power consumption is 1500 mA (there is a fuse inside rated 1.5A). Anything rated at least 1A should be OK. (...) They should, if they are really regulated (some cheap warts advertised as regulated are not so good...). A (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: External power supply ? —Chris Phillips
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| | | | | | | (...) CAUTION!!! The wall-wart that comes with the train adaptor puts out an AC voltage that will likely damage your RCX if used this way!!! I have read reports of people burning out their RCXes by connecting the wall-wart to the battery contacts (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: External power supply ? —Philippe Hurbain
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| | | | | | | | (...) You are right Chris, the train controller is not a good idea. Indeed all Lego adaptors (including the one for RCX 1.0) provide AC only. And turning the knob in the wrong direction is just too easy. Thanks for correcting my misleading (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: External power supply ? —Ken Koleda
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| | | | | | (...) I ran by Radio Shak today and they had one 3-12v rated at 1A I think. It was $37! (...) I have considered that too. But uncovered another potential complication. In researching around somewhere... I think at lego.com actually it said that RCX (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: External power supply ? —Philippe Hurbain
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| | | | | | (...) I think you could find something cheaper than that (with a fixed-voltage output?) (...) The RIS 1.0 didn't support variables, but 1.0 bricks can use latest firmware so there is NO problem here ! (...) As Chris mentionned elswhere in this (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: External power supply ? —Ken Koleda
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| | | | | | (...) Right. But that's not what I was asking or suggesting. The idea was...elave the RCX2.0 as is on batteries. Run some other devices off of whatever power source, but control that power source via program logic from the RCX. The RCX could run (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: External power supply ? —David Laswell
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| | | | | | (...) It sounds like what you're wanting to do is to effectively turn a battery-powered RCX into the rough equivalent of a multi-function smart-solenoid. All final output devices (lights, motors, etc.) are powered by switched 9v AC supplies, and the (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: External power supply ? —James Ryan
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| | | | "ken koleda" <kkoleda@co.wayne.mi.us> wrote in message news:HrD4zL.1sEF@lugnet.com... <<snip>> (...) looked at (...) to (...) regulator (...) adapter. (...) run (...) Hi Ken, I have been using a Radio Shack Cat #273-1772 with good results. It is a (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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