Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #05565
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Bumper314@aol.com
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 00:39:05 EDT
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: electric shock disposable camera.
In a message dated 8/8/99 9:35:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time, jlk@innernet.net
writes:
> Yeah, that's why you never drop a camera in water...lol. You can get 120vdc
> motors, but I don't see how you'r gonna be able to use 330! -lol- Maybe put
> a strobe-type flash on the top of a BEAM for tracking or something. I guess
> if you employed some large diodes you could bring that 330 down to a usable
> value, but I'm not sure how well it would work.
>
well since the charge on 1.5v you could use a small calc cell, you could use
it as a cat defense, not shock it, but if a large sensative push switch was
hit on the top of the bot, then it would FLASH right in its face...go running
off, not bad
5566 Sun, 8 Aug 1999 21:59:16 -0700 (PDT) [alt-beam] Re: electric shock disposable camera. beam@sgiblab.sgi.com James Taylor Solar cells don't have nearly enough mah to charge a
camera flash, you would need to gang 3 or 4 calc.
cells toghether.
I have a ton of these, and I have made "plants" out
of them for my RJP. They are setup to turn on at
regular intervals. To bad photovores seem to ignore
them.
--- Bumper314@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 8/8/99 9:35:30 PM Pacific
> Daylight Time, jlk@innernet.net
> writes:
>
> > Yeah, that's why you never drop a camera in
> water...lol. You can get 120vdc
> > motors, but I don't see how you'r gonna be able
> to use 330! -lol- Maybe put
> > a strobe-type flash on the top of a BEAM for
> tracking or something. I guess
> > if you employed some large diodes you could bring
> that 330 down to a usable
> > value, but I'm not sure how well it would work.
> >
>
> well since the charge on 1.5v you could use a small
> calc cell, you could use
> it as a cat defense, not shock it, but if a large
> sensative push switch was
> hit on the top of the bot, then it would FLASH right
> in its face...go running
> off, not bad
>
===
Everything I say can mean one of two things...If something I say makes you mad....I meant it the other way.
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