Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00339
To: chiumanfu@home.com, beam@corp.sgi.com
From: TurtleTek@aol.com
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 23:19:35 EST
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: 3.6v ?!
> Check your soldering!
Not to sound ungratefull, but what exactly am I looking for? A loose joint? A
short? And why would the light play a roll in this problem if bad soldering is
to blame?
-TurtleTek
"Yu, shall I tell you what knowledge is? When you know a thing,
say that you know it. When you do not know a thing, admit you
do not know it. This is knowledge."
- K'ung-fu Tzu (Confucius)
chiumanfu@home.com writes:
> Check your soldering!
>
> TurtleTek@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > Greetings List,
> >
> > I don't have much time to burn so I'll keep this brief:
> >
> > More wierd stuff from good ol' ProtoBot (the photopopper from SB with a
37*
> 33
> > cell). When in semi-bright light it moves quick and all's well but when
it'
> s
> > in low light (normal "room light") it never moves and it charges to about
> 3.6
> > volts and then just hovers around that voltage. Why the heck isn't it
> moving?!
> > Shouldn't it fire as soon as the cap reaches 2.6-2.7?
> >
> > -TurtleTek
> > "Yu, shall I tell you what knowledge is? When you know a thing,
> > say that you know it. When you do not know a thing, admit you
> > do not know it. This is knowledge."
> > - K'ung-fu Tzu (Confucius)
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