Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #03023
To: James Anderson anderson@cfht.hawaii.edu
From: Bob Shannon bshannon@tiac.net
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 21:14:31 -0700
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: James' problems (was: Steve's problems)
James Anderson wrote:
>
> I'm pretty sure they were the right way around. Actually I wasn't using a 2906,
> as Rat Shack (at least the one here) doesn't carry them. They do have boxes of
> fifteen "2906-Type Transistors," for which the general list consensus was that
> they should work anyway.
Nope! You should use the real parts. This is probably the problem!
> I ordered some "real McCoy" parts from digikey as
> specified on Beam Online (Thank you Beam Online hominid!), but haven't got
> around to playing with them yet. I'll likely do that this weekend, and get back
> to you with further questions if I have still problems.
>
> Wondering Aimlessly,
> James Anderson
> ============================
> Sole text found after following an apparently dead link: "/bin/moved"
>
> "Feser, Jason" wrote:
>
> > Do you have the datasheets for the 2904 and 2906's? I got the collector,
> > base and emitter backwards for a while - had me tearing my hair out in
> > frustration until I started flipping the xistors around in my breadboard.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Anderson [mailto:anderson@cfht.hawaii.edu]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 5:15 PM
> > To: Feser, Jason
> > Cc: beam
> > Subject: Re: James' problems (was: Steve's problems)
> >
> > Soldering? I can't even breadboard the sucker. And I do frequently check
> > for 0
> > resistance between the breadboard connections.
> >
> > As far as the cap goes, I was switching between one 4700uF and three
> > 1000uF's
> > (in parallel), all of which I got from Rat Shack. Thoughts?
> >
> > Wondering Aimlessly,
> > James Anderson
> > ============================
> > Sole text found after following an apparently dead link: "/bin/moved"
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