Subject:
|
Re: How long will train 9v motors last?
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.trains
|
Date:
|
Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:19:23 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
4010 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.trains, John Neal wrote:
| |
In lugnet.trains, Rafe Donahue wrote:
| |
In lugnet.trains, John Neal wrote:
| |
In lugnet.trains, Jindrich Kubec wrote: snip
One thing we’ve encountered that hinders automation is that the RCX brick
shuts off after 15 minutes. We constantly need to restart the program.
Have you found a way to defeat this shutdown?
|
John,
I and Steve H posted some things on this back in October of 2005: the link
is
http://news.lugnet.com/robotics/?n=24457
The trick using NQC is the SetSleepTime function. “SetSleepTime(0);”
disables the auto shut down.
Hope that helps.
|
It doesn’t help me one bit:-) I am virtually ignanent when it comes to the
RCX; that is my son’s domain. I’ll pass this along to him, though.
So basically you are suggesting that he program the RCX using NQC rather than
using the Mindstorms software? (if this isn’t a basic yes/no question, please
feel free not to elaborate;-)
|
You can configure the RCX sleep time using the standard MindStorms software. I
don’t have an installation of this handy to tell you exactly how to do it, but I
remember setting this after doing firmware downloads. The sleep time setting is
preserved until you (or a program) change it, or until the batteries die.
According to
this completely unrelated article about Hamster Odometry:
”...you will have make sure your RCX doesn’t go into sleep mode. You can change
this in the Getting Started section of the Mindstorms software.”
Strangely, the article has no mention of elderberries!
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: How long will train 9v motors last?
|
| (...) It doesn't help me one bit:-) I am virtually ignanent when it comes to the RCX; that is my son's domain. I'll pass this along to him, though. So basically you are suggesting that he program the RCX using NQC rather than using the Mindstorms (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
|
15 Messages in This Thread:
 
  
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
