Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #01559
To: TurtleTek@aol.com TurtleTek@aol.com
From: Chiu-Yuan Fang chiumanfu@home.com
Date: Monday, March 15, 1999 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: Photo-phobic photovore...
>Swap the sides that the photodiodes are mounted on.
>
>Chiu
>
>TurtleTek@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> Greeting List,
>>
>> I've recently finished yet another photovore. It uses the "photopopper
>> circuit" and has touch switches. This is the first one of mine that
hasn't
>> worked (except that photopopper that I mucked up on the soldering). At
first
>> it wouldn't work very well at all, only one motor would fire, the 1381 (I
>> think) would buz and it would just sit there. After some tinkering I got
it to
>> work. However, there is one problem... It's photophobic. Instead of going
>> towards light, it goes away from light. Why's that? I've checked the
schem and
>> everything looks right. The only thing I think could be wrong is the
>> photodiodes, I might''ve put them in wrong, but I can't tell.
>>
>> -TurtleTek
>
>--
>Chiu-Yuan Fang
>chiumanfu@home.com
>ICQ=5614919
>http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/6897/beam2.html
>
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