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RE: preventing IR tower shutdown
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:27:56 GMT
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> > I am trying to figure out how to prevent the IR tower
> > from shutting down. I disassembled the tower, but I am
> > really not a hardware expert. My educated guess would
> > be that it might be enough to remove the big, silver
> > capacitor that is sitting right next to the battery
> > contacts, and then wire the two vacated contacts straight
> > through. But like I say, that's a guess. Any experts out
> > there?
> >
> > Kay
Usually a capacitor lives across the power lines, and introducing a wire
would be a good way of drianing the battery, burning the wire and possibly
yourself!!!
DON'T DO THIS...
Cheers,
Ralph Hempel - P.Eng
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| (...) I'm going to go at it from the other direction, I am writing an IDE (32 bit windows) for the pbFORTH system. My intention is to send a keepalive character every now and then to stop the tower going to sleep, at the moment I am debugging FORTH (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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