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Hi All, A while back, Ben Erwin asked about other user's experiences with the IR tower and range. I'm trying to characterize a persistent problem with the pbForth serial library, with respect to message reliability. It seems that even in high range (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX and IR Range Characteristics?
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(...) SNIP (...) SNIP Not experience, but perhaps the location of the IR diodes in the tower is effecting it's peformance? As other people have noted before, the diodes are not located behind the smooth molded "windows" in the tower, but lower, (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: RCX and IR Range Characteristics?
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As expected Jeff Hazen and John Barnes sent along a few itmes of interest. (...) Jeff asked if the diffuse cover of the tower had any effect at all. From my experiments, Jeff - the answer is no. John Barnes suggested that the bit-balancing act that (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX and IR Range Characteristics?
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hi Ralph, I think I'm lucky. I just did some experiments with a modified IR-tower. The modifications were: the "keep alive trick" from John Barnes and my own trick to add a few more diodes to get rid of the 9V battery. Without a batttery in the (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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