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Message #00436



To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Steven Bolt sbolt@xs4all.nl
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 18:46:24 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: solar engine 2


On Thu, 15 Feb 1996 davidperry@mail.geocities.com wrote:

> the capacitators are fine, if i replace the motor with a tiny pager
> one the circuit works fine, its just the tiny inbuilt capacitator in
> some motors causes the motor to fire once then hangup and oscillate,
> sometimes you can hear it going clunk, clunk, clunk, you can even see
> it moving. I just need a simple way to get rid of this problem if
> there is any, other than building a suneater circuit which is ammune
> to this problem

Ok, I'll bite. What's wrong with building a SunEater? I'd rather like
to know, since I designed the SunEaters in the hope of providing
something better and easier to get going than the two-transistor
Solar Engine :)

Best,

Steve

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