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| (...) No. If you take one with too small a current rating, however, you could overload the Power Supply and fry that. Or, maybe, you'll find that oyur batteries still drain even with the RCX plugged in :) I would think 800 mAmps should be enough, (...) (26 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I believe that you should, indeed, be wary of oversizing an AC adapter. The simple "wall cube" is unregulated and typically employs a "just-big- enough" transformer. Voltage under light loading rises considerably above nominal, and poses a threat of (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I had posed this question to Fred Martin at MIT who was involved in the designing of the Programmable Brick/RCX and this was his response; (...) This is by no means an official response from The Lego Group. Pete (...) -- Did you check the web site (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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