Re: TI-H: Serial Link
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Re: TI-H: Serial Link
Ok, but this is what it does. I plug it into the link port and the cursor
blinks and the contrast drops like it's draining power out of the batteries.
Why?
Jeff Rapp
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-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Sunday, April 12, 1998 12:01 AM
Subject: Re: TI-H: Serial Link
>
>1/2 is fine. I use 1/4 all of the time... basically:
>
>The calc uses 5 volts.
>At 5 volts 1/2 a watt is .1 amps.
>Since your calc doesn't even use .1 amps, neither will the link port... :)
>
>Grant
>
>>I decided to build a serial link cable, so I went to Radio Shack to buy
the
>>parts. It wasn't until I got home that I read the wattage on the resistor
>>pack (1/2watt). What should the wattage be on the resistors? Thanks.
>> Jeff Rapp
>>
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>> - http://qble.hypermart.net
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>> - http://members.tripod.com/~jrapp/stuff
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