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Re: Wot no RCX power connector?
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Tue, 19 Oct 1999 16:26:25 GMT
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Original-From:
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Markus L. Noga <markus@noga.de*Spamless*>
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Ralph Hempel wrote:
> My guess is it vanished after they got too many "defective" units back after
> folks started putting adapters with the wrong voltage on their bricks.
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> Even a wired voltage spike might kill the brick. The battery route is
> safer from a product repair point of view.
Interesting enough, I once withdrew the power connector on a unit under
full load - sensors, motors, everything on - because the task manager
had gone into an endless loop. After duly waiting a couple of seconds, I
reinserted the plug. Blue spark and hissing noise, but the RCX came up
just fine.
Ralph Hempel wrote:
> My guess is that the "old" stock will become more valuable. guess I have
> an excuse to buy another one now.
Ten years from now, people will probably pay serious bucks for the one
Kekoa used in his reverse engineering work. Nice thing they have serial
numbers stamped on.
Markus.
--
"Nieder mit den Zitaten!" -Markus L. Noga <markus@noga.de>
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| (...) HaHaHa - What about the one Dave Baum developed NQC on, and the one you used for LegOS, and the one I used for pbFORTH? I'll bet they would sell as a matched set. I can see it now...... I guess if Kennedy's golf clubs are worth $750,000 these (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) My guess is it vanished after they got too many "defective" units back after folks started putting adapters with the wrong voltage on their bricks. Even a wired voltage spike might kill the brick. The battery route is safer from a product (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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