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    Re: RCX Currnet Rating?: And info on Internals?? —Terry King
    I'm still not clear on exactly what the RCX enternal-power input will accept. Can anyone tell us what the internals really are?? If I view the RCX power connector closely, I read: 9-12V~ (nine dash one two Vee tilde) I would interpret that to mean: (...) (25 years ago, 12-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
   
        Re: RCX Currnet Rating?: And info on Internals?? —Kekoa Proudfoot
   (...) It is commonly believed that the RCX contains a full rectifier, so if you supplied AC, that would work, but more importantly, if you supplied either polarity of DC, that would work also. The conversion to AC also requires a sufficiently large (...) (25 years ago, 12-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
   
        Re: RCX Currnet Rating?: And info on Internals?? —Terry King
   Kekoa, Many Thanks for your tireless digging. I have seen a lot of very interesting stuff you have unearthed. I think that more is often learned about Engineering by 'Reverse Engineering' than 'forward'! Years ago I used to get tons of old IBM (...) (25 years ago, 12-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
 

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