Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #02427
To: zulu35@singnet.com.sg, richfile@rconnect.com, beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Bumper314@aol.com
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 13:24:41 EDT
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Shape Memory Alloy (Trivia???)
In a message dated 4/17/99 8:41:03 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
zulu35@singnet.com.sg writes:
> but doesn't SMAs take up a lot of current... hmm... if theres any version
> that doesn't do so... heh heh mind recommending it to me? i guess i'll
> really need them... :)
Mark Tilden did some work with this. He ran a few inches of SMA off of a SE,
but the cap size was around 1F just to get it to contract slowly and release
slowly. I guess he had planes for a whole tiny solar walker with this but i
dont know what happened. Has anyone else worked with this stuff and hooked it
up to a solar engine?
STeve
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