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Re: Pure Energy & the RCX
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lugnet.robotics
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Sun, 21 Nov 1999 03:52:19 GMT
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Hey, all I want is to have the smallest lightest RCX and that means leaving
the batteries out of it. I don't really care how they do the connectors. I
even have one of those boxes with the button. I just think power source and
power sink should be able to be separate units, especially since they now
(1.5) don't even have a provision for an adapter. Even if you use
rechargeable batteries, you have to disassemble your robot to change them.
It just doesn't make much sense to me. It is like having to take your car
into the shop to fill the gas tank.
--Jack Gregory
Robert Munafo <munafo@gcctechNO.SPAMcom> wrote in message
news:FLGvv0.9Ds@lugnet.com...
> No, you all missed the point.
>
> Jack was talking about the idea of LEGO(r) providing an external NiCad • battery
> pack solution to certain perceived problem (the difficulty of taking a • robot
> apart in order to change the batteries in an RCX, Scout, etc.). He said:
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> "we should be able to have a battery pack and just swap it"
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> If LEGO(r) did such a thing they would clearly implement the battery pack • as a
> sealed multi-call unit, like cell phones and laptop computers do. (Why? • Because
> they already *have* a normal 6-cell battery pack box, and Jack did not • suggest
> the use of that box, which he obviously could have done)
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> So I was responding to Jack's ideas with my description of the problems of
> multi-cell sealed battery packs.
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> And Jack, if you want to change your original idea to that of using a • battery
> box, then why not suggest adding a standard LEGO(r) 4-stud electrical • connector
> to the RCX and Scout whereby it could be powered by the standard LEGO(r)
> battery box?
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> In lugnet.robotics, Wes Matchett writes:
> > [lots of comments assuming the cells in the battery pack are seperable]
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> Other replies saying essentially the same thing:
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> http://www.lugnet.com/robotics/?n=8334
> http://www.lugnet.com/robotics/?n=8341
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> - Robert Munafo www.mrob.com
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| No, you all missed the point. Jack was talking about the idea of LEGO(r) providing an external NiCad battery pack solution to certain perceived problem (the difficulty of taking a robot apart in order to change the batteries in an RCX, Scout, etc.). (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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