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Message #03050



To: "'Ben Hitchcock'" beh01@uow.edu.au
From: Wilf Rigter Wilf.Rigter@powertech.bc.ca
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 13:06:40 -0700
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: LC circuits



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Thanks Ben,

sorry for the "grapho" (like typo) here is the corrected schematic.

regards

Wilf Rigter mailto:wilf.rigter@powertech.bc.ca
tel: (604)590-7493
fax: (604)590-3411

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Hitchcock [SMTP:beh01@uow.edu.au]
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 1999 1:43 PM
> To: Wilf.Rigter@powertech.bc.ca
> Cc: beam
> Subject: Re: LC circuits
>
> Fantastic!
>
> Just one thing, though, shouldn't there be a break in the wire between the
> relay input and the relay output? It looks to me like all the inputs and
> outputs are solidly connected together!
>
> Ben
>
> >Hello Alex,
> >
> >No, not stupid at all ! Here is a fine example of an electromagnetic Beam
> >circuit. This Relay Core has a definite L 'ement" of retro about. The
> >triangles are meant to Show the similarity with the MicroCore. Relays are
> of
> >course natural Schmitt triggers. This low tech design could have been
> build
> >a century ago! Who knows, if someone had invented it then perhaps today
> we
> >would be driving walkers instead of cars.
> >
> >enjoy
> >
> > Wilf Rigter mailto:wilf.rigter@powertech.bc.ca
> > tel: (604)590-7493
> > fax: (604)590-3411
> >
> > <>
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: afarley@sas.upenn.edu [SMTP:afarley@sas.upenn.edu]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 9:49 AM
> >> To: beam@corp.sgi.com
> >> Subject: LC circuits
> >>
> >> This may seem like a stupid question (it may just be so obvious
> >> that it does not immediately occur to me why not), but why aren't LC
> >> (inductor-capacitor) circuits used in any of the higher level circuits?
>
> >> Can't LC's be used for central pattern generation? Or is there a
> reason
> >> why inductors do not mesh well with the desired outputs? Are the
> outputs
> >> too regular (if they are why not have some type of LRC circuit)?
> >> Just wondering.
> >> Alex Farley
> >
> >
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