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Re: IR Transmitter - where's the "off" switch?
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Wed, 30 Jun 1999 08:33:43 GMT
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Original-From:
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Ben Williamson <benw@pobox^stopspam^.com>
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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 so I can't suggest much. In any case I've got
the original battery in my tower which has been plugged in for months,
and it's still going strong.
Hope that helps,
- Ben.
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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