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Subject: 
Re: A/C Adapter for RCX 1.0
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lugnet.robotics.rcx
Date: 
Wed, 31 Mar 2004 02:01:58 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx, Ross Crawford wrote:
   You can safely power it with a DC supply, however I wouldn’t recommend leaving it on for a long time, as there have been reports of the rectifier burning out. If that happens, you should still be able to use batteries. You could also reverse the polarity of the input voltage, but that would probably burn out the other half of the rectifier eventually.

When a fellow MichLUGer brought up the question of hooking up an external power supply to a 2.0 RCX, a lot of these interesting little facts popped up. From the way it sounded, the RCX has a maximum amperage draw, and each side of the bridge rectifier is designed to handle half of it. If that’s true, it’ll work fine with DC power as long as you don’t exceed half of the maximum draw. As you increase your draw from that point, you increase the likelihood that you’ll burn it out. The problem isn’t so much figuring out what the max draw is, as it is figuring out what half of the max draw is and making sure you don’t exceed it by much. Given the secondary market price on a 1.0 RCX, it sounds like it’s a lot cheaper to just suck it up and buy the AC adapter.



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  Re: A/C Adapter for RCX 1.0
 
(...) The RCX has a bridge rectifier inside, that converts the AC to DC. It also has a voltage regulator that allows it to take a fairly large input voltage range. You can safely power it with a DC supply, however I wouldn't recommend leaving it on (...) (20 years ago, 31-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)

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