Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #01174
To: Jake842@aol.com
From: Chiu-Yuan Fang chiumanfu@home.com
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 14:53:43 -0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Symet
Is your motor spinning but not gripping? Try a "stickier" foot on your motor
shaft. Maybe your motor isn't very efficient or has a high nominal working
voltage.
Chiu
Jake842@aol.com wrote:
>
> Hey List,
> I just finished my first 1381 Symet. It has 6 1000uf Capacitors and a
> solarbotics solar panel. In bright light it triggers about once a second, but
> the bursts are barily enough to move it anywhere. So I put a LED in between
> the 3rd leg of the 2.7 1381
> and th negative of the capacitors. Nothing happened, i then reversed the
> polarity of the Led, that didn't work so i tried a regular diode, that didn't
> work either. How can I make the bursts more powerful? Any help would be
> appreciated.
> THanks , Geoff
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Chiu-Yuan Fang
chiumanfu@home.com
ICQ=5614919
http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/6897/beam2.html
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