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Re: NXC: turning on the light
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:38:28 GMT
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iTOtto <{torsten.otto@mac.com}saynotospam{}>
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Thanks a bunch for the reply! The education set has the lamp, so my students
would like to use it now...
I'll keep you 'posted' about the results...

Regards,
Torsten Otto


John Hansen-4 wrote:

In lugnet.robotics, iTOtto <torsten.otto@mac.com> wrote:
Howdy,

maybe I'm overlooking something very simple, but I can't find a way to
use
the lamp that comes with the NXT when programming it in NXC.

Is this plainly not supported?

Regards,
iTOtto

My guess is you can turn it on using one of the powered sensor types such
as
SENSOR_TYPE_LIGHT_ACTIVE or SENSOR_TYPE_LOWSPEED_9V.  I don't have a lamp
to
test this with or any of the cables that are required to connect a lamp to
a
sensor port.  The retail set doesn't include any of these cables or the
lamp
itself.

Let me know if this works or not.

John Hansen



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  Re: NXC: turning on the light
 
(...) The lamp is relatively power hungry, so you should connect it to a motor port for best result. OnFwd ("ports", "pwr"); will light it, with brightness controlled by the pwr parameter. Off ("ports"); will turn it off. I have not tested, but most (...) (16 years ago, 15-Apr-08, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: NXC: turning on the light
 
We successfully tried the following: task light() { OnFwd(OUT_A, 100); } It works like a motor =) OnRev works as well. We haven't yet tried the other idea. (16 years ago, 15-Apr-08, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: NXC: turning on the light
 
(...) Philo wasn't able to post here but via email he pointed out that it is best to use the lamp on an output port rather than a sensor port. Here's what he had to say: Since the lamp is a rather power hungry device, it is best to drive it with an (...) (16 years ago, 15-Apr-08, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: NXC: turning on the light
 
(...) My guess is you can turn it on using one of the powered sensor types such as SENSOR_TYPE_LIGHT_ACTIVE or SENSOR_TYPE_LOWSPEED_9V. I don't have a lamp to test this with or any of the cables that are required to connect a lamp to a sensor port. (...) (16 years ago, 14-Apr-08, to lugnet.robotics)

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