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| | | I've been playing around with my new RIS and having a blast, but one thing bugs me - there's no "OFF" switch on the IR transmitter. When I power off my computer the IRT still has the green light lit and drains the 9V battery over time! I've taken (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: IR Transmitter - where's the "off" switch? —Marcus Fischer Mellbin
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| | | | | (...) I still have the same cheap 9V battery running my IRT since January. Good luck! Marcus --- Marcus Fischer Mellbin E-mail: marcus NO-SPAM-AT fischer-mellbin.com (URL) (25 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: IR Transmitter - where's the "off" switch? —Laurentino Martins
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| | | | I don't have a RIS, but I always heard that one of the worst things of the IR tower is that automatically powers itself off after 2 or 3 seconds of use. And because of that, you cannot send messages from the MindStorms to the tower because it only (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: IR Transmitter - where's the "off" switch? —Ben Williamson
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| | | | | Brian, I think your tower is the odd one out here. My LED only turns on while the tower is transmitting, and goes off a few seconds after it finishes. My guess is that there is something wierd about your serial port, but I haven't seen the problem (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: IR Transmitter - where's the "off" switch? —Brian H. Nielsen
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| | | | | | (...) The Green light on my IRT turns on when downloading and off when done downloading. The problem is that it also turns on and stays on when I power off my system!! (I'm using WIN98 on a system that auto powers off when I SHUTDOWN.) At first I (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: IR Transmitter - where's the "off" switch? —Brian H. Nielsen
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| | | | (...) tower is that automatically powers itself off after 2 or 3 seconds of use. (...) tower because it only "listens" to messages when it's powered on. I've read the messages about the IR Tower powering off and people trying to keep them ON, but I (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: IR Transmitter - where's the "off" switch? —Chris Phillips
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| | | | | Brian H. Nielsen <70401.2635@compuserve.com> wrote in message ... (...) The application where it is desirable to keep the tower turned on is when you want one or more RCXes to be able to send messages to a program running on the host computer. The (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: IR Transmitter - where's the "off" switch? —Joel Shafer
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| | | | (...) Wouldn't it be easier to "fix" the tower than to work around it's narcolepsy? Joel Shafer joel@connect.net -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: IR Transmitter - where's the "off" switch? —Chris Phillips
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| | | | Joel Shafer wrote... (...) narcolepsy? Yes and no. It would probably be easy for TLG to redesign the tower to fix this problem. (While they are at it, they should also supply power to the tower from the supply voltage pin available on the RS-232 (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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