Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #01312
To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Steven Bolt sbolt@xs4all.nl
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 09:27:16 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: advanced circuits
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Justin wrote:
[ non-inductive loads don't bother even the worst SE ]
> My first "advanced"* (there's that word again!) SE was built because the
> two-transistor designs didn't run an IC-based bot very well (read:
> terribly). Hopefully you suspected this was the shortfall I was
> referring too.
I sort of guessed, but `non-inductive' might terribly impress the
innocents...
> *"advanced" here is relative to the basic two-transistor design. Ie an
> SE with more components. (The precision with which I use words is
> astounding... :-)
Perhaps you could modify Ben Hitchcocks "Alf" circuit for
SunEater_IV type operation. That would give you lively performance
out of a physically small SuperCap, hopefully without increasing
the component count :)
Best,
Steve
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