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    Turning power off? —Ernst de Ridder
   To my dismay, I discovered this morning that the batteries of the RCX were empty. And it's sunday :-( It is possible that I forgot to turn it off, yesterday evening. But aside from this, I use the sequence LCD_CLEAR LCD_REFRESH POWER_OFF to turn the (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
   
        RE: Turning power off? —Ralph Hempel
   (...) It's probably bad luck. Two weeks running is about normal if you're doing lots of IR downloads. The IRED takes quite a bit of current when transmitting. The POWER_OFF does shut things down....I really do forget if RCX_SHUTDOWN is necessary. (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
   
        Re: Turning power off? —Stefan Naewe
   (...) YES ! Definitely! BTW: Could it be that US versions of the RCX do have a connector for an power supply ? I saw that in _The Unofficial Guide to Lego MindStorms_. Stefan (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
   
        Re: Turning power off? —Roger Hamlett
   (...) rubber (...) No. The 'power connector' version, is the RCX 1.0. When Lego introduced the Mindstorm 1.5, they removed the power connector. To confuse more, the case of the RCX is still marked 1.0!. The RCX 1.0 _with power connector_ is still (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)  
 

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