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To: "'beam@sgiblab.sgi.com'" beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Van Zoelen, Bram AA SSI-TSEA-352" Bram.A.A.vanZoelen@is.shell.com
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:18:13 +0200
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: good news about my competition entry at last...


This is not only due the fact that the batteries are becoming better but
also because of the power consumption of the electronics.

Just a quick note.

Bram


> ----------
> From: David Perry[SMTP:davidperry@geocities.com]
> Reply To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 8:34 PM
> To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
> Subject: Re: good news about my competition entry at last...
>
> great, i think some of the best batteries in the world come form mobile
> phones, our first phone had like 2 hours of talk time and our newest one
> has
> like 80.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Shannon
> To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
> Date: Friday, 30 July 1999 8:05
> Subject: Re: good news about my competition entry at last...
>
>
> >David Perry wrote:
> >
> >> actually, our husehold has set the world record on mobile phones (5) ,
> a
> >> couple oldish ones we're not using, could i swipe one of those
> batteries?
> >>
> >> David Perry
> >
> >Yeah, give them a try! Cellular phones place some very high current
> spikes
> >on the batteries, probably an excellent source!
> >
> >The Ni-MHD packs are, well, tricky. They are much like Ni-Cad cells,
> only
> >with much higher power density. But the recharging process is tricky.
> >
> >If your not totally comfortable measuring current, these are not what you
> >want
> >to play with. (they can explode)
> >
>



5480 Thursday, 29 July 1999 8:50 Competition idea Beam Ben Morgan =

Hi I was reading a robotics page that mentioned a robotics fire=
fighting competion this competition. I thought that maybe we could run a c=
ompetition to see whose beambot could put out a candle the quickest. A simp=
le idea is a robot with heat detection that then simply turns on a fan or s=
omething of the sort when it finds the candle.


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Gotta figure that out any ideas


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