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Re: Two Usb towers
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 3 Aug 2005 12:44:19 GMT
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On 8/3/05, Lane <Steve> wrote:
> That's a perfectly reasonable suggestion. The reason I haven't done that
> (although I did consider it) is because I leave my robot running for quite a
> while and it uses the tower almost constantly, so it burns through batteries
> quite quickly. If I could reduce the time the tower stays on after
> transmission,
> I could probably save a lot of battery power. I even have a 9v rechargeable
> battery and charger but the battery's so old I don't know if it would safely
> work. The batteries cost about £4 and I'm getting a cheap tower from the
> states,
> so there's not that much in it and it saves the fag of changing batteries,
> recharging batteries and having your robot fail cause the battery's worn out
> (which does happen).
>
> Steve
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> Ps I've just spell checked this post with the Google toolbar spell checker,
> and
> it works brilliantly. No more misspelled posts for me :-).
There are, if you are a little daring, power supplies with a 9v
battery output connector on them relatively easily available. You
could always use one of those.
Off topic - I use the gmail spell checker - although I notice in your
post you say "saves the fag of changing batteries" - is that what you
meant? Only "fag" does not quite sound right there.
Danny
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| (...) It's English-english (as opposed to American-english) and it means roughly: "tiresome effort". It's also slang for cigarette. ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- HomeEmail: <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkEmail: <sjbaker@link.com> HomePage : (URL) : (4 (...) (19 years ago, 3-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) That's a perfectly reasonable suggestion. The reason I haven't done that (although I did consider it) is because I leave my robot running for quite a while and it uses the tower almost constantly, so it burns through batteries quite quickly. (...) (19 years ago, 3-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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