Alt-BEAM Archive

Message #04838



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: James Anderson anderson@cfht.hawaii.edu
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:27:08 -1000
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: To Newbies


Hyndman wrote:

> >I waited for one to come in from Solarbotics, and still spend a month
> trying >to get my SE to work with the crap transistors they sold me.
>
> I have built a photovore, a Scout Walker 1 and a Scout Walker 2, and I have
> had no problems with any of the components. If I remember right Solarbotics
> components are ordered from Digikey.

I sorry. That wasn't as clear as it couldn't have been. I was referring to the
sub-standard transistors I got from Radio Shack, which quite literally gave me
no end of problems. As soon as the ones came in from DigiKey, however, my
little trymet took off like a charm. (A *very* slow charm, but a charm
nonetheless)

All the Solarbotics stuff I've gotten has worked just fine.

> >DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR: Order from digikey or Jameco and >Solarbotics
> from the *beginning*. If don't have a credit card, you should at >least be
> able to send them a money order. It'll take longer, and seem more
> >expensive than >RS, but, it the long run, you'll save time, money, and,
> most >importantly, headaches.
>
> With solarbotics (people who live in calgary are the exception) Shipping
> will
> take a while, shipping prices are a bitch and we all know how our excellent
> postal service rushes packages to us.

Yeah, I use Digikey for everything I can. If you know somewhere beside
Solarbotics that sells decent solar cells, however, I'm sure the everyone list
would be happy to heard about it.

Wondering Aimlessly,
James Anderson



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