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  Re: IR Transmitter - where's the "off" switch?
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: IR Transmitter - where's the "off" switch?
 
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)
 
  Re: IR Transmitter - where's the "off" switch?
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: IR Transmitter - where's the "off" switch?
 
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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