Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00958
To: Hendrickson hannah@nanospace.com, "Feser, Jason" jfeser@ea.com,
From: dennison dennlill@buffnet.net
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 18:45:13 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Cadmium Sulphide Photocells.....
Inferior? What? I think they work much better than PD's in Bicore based
Photovores. They don't require a suspended bicore, and have a very large
linear region of resistance. Which means that you can get a wide difference
in response from slightly diffrent amounts of light.
Dennison
>I think they are mostly used when photodiodes are hard to come by. They
work
>quite well, especially for biasing Nv nets. I haven't used them a lot, but
>it seams to me that the "memory" effect of photoresistors would make them a
>little inferior to PDs when used for photovore circuits. What do you mean
by
>"metering" them? Just my 2 cents.
>
>Brian
>beamboter@iname.com
>www.welcome.to/briansbeam
>"There isn't much thrill in success
>unless one has first come close to failure"- W. Feather
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Feser, Jason
>To: 'beam@corp.sgi.com'
>Date: Wednesday, February 24, 1999 11:06 AM
>Subject: Cadmium Sulphide Photocells.....
>
>
>>Was wondering if anyone has used these as sensors? If they work very
well,
>>and also how you would go about metering them...
>>
>
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