Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #03666
To: Wouter Brok w.j.m.brok@stud.tue.nl
From: Chiu-Yuan Fang chiumanfu@home.com
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 00:45:16 -0700
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: diode
The Germanium diodes I use in ATpV
http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/6897/atpv.html
have a 0.2-0.4Volt drop.
I got them from All Electronics
http://www.allcorp.com/
Part #1N60
Chiu
Wouter Brok wrote:
>
> Hello List,
>
> Sometime I saw a description of a solarpowered robot, with a microprocessor
> (PIC is guess), on the web. The solarcell charged a huge capacitor via a
> diode (so that the capacitor wouldn't discharge itself through the
> colarcell when there isn't enough light anymore). The same diode I found in
> a solar-battery-charged (which I disassembled to check how they did it) and
> had a threshold-voltage of something like 0.2 V (that's why it's do ideal
> for this application). The problem is: I forgot the type-number of the
> diode .... 1N58.. or so ... I really don't remember.
> Maybe anybody knows the URL of the page I've seen, or knows which diode I
> mean ... please tell.
>
> Wouter Brok.
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Chiu-Yuan Fang
chiumanfu@home.com
ICQ=5614919
http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/6897/beam2.html
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