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Message #06055
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From: Donald McCorvey dlm3@netaxs.com
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 23:21:05 -0400
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Hot Wheels Caps
Why don't you try
http://www.faradnet.com/catalog/company.htm
It appears to be a good starting point for just about every cap
manufacturer out there. One of the usual suspects (digi-key, Newark,
Farnell, etc.) should carry any supplier you pick. Personally, I'd take
a long look at Sprague-Vishay for some solid tantalum caps. Should come
in decent sizes at low working voltages with very low leakage.
don mccorvey
> Richard Caudle wrote:
>
> Evening all,
>
> I couldn't resist the temptation and tore apart my XVRacer. It has a
> Hot Wheels cap inside, at least the shrinkwrap on the cap has the
> logo. Anyway, I hooked it up to a BiCORE circuit that's still on my
> breadboard, and it seems to run a good long time before running down.
> 20 minutes or so from a 5 second charge off a 9V battery. It would be
> nice to find the vendor for these caps so that we can use them in our
> SE's! Anybody have any inroads at Mattell?
>
> Just musing...
>
> Richard Caudle
> richard@cqc.com
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6056 Sun, 12 Sep 1999 23:02:27 -0600 [alt-beam] Re: Hot Wheels Caps beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Dave Hrynkiw At 08:19 PM 9/12/99 , Richard Caudle wrote:
>I couldn't resist the temptation and tore apart my XVRacer. It has a Hot
>Wheels cap inside, at least the shrinkwrap on the cap has the
>logo. Anyway, I hooked it up to a BiCORE circuit that's still on my
>breadboard, and it seems to run a good long time before running down. 20
>minutes or so from a 5 second charge off a 9V battery. It would be nice
>to find the vendor for these caps so that we can use them in our
>SE's! Anybody have any inroads at Mattell?
I'm pretty sure they're out friend, the Panasonic Gold cap, in the 4.7F or
10F configuration (can't recall from memory). I remember the physical
dimensions matched exactly. Check the size against data in the digikey
catalog to find out for sure.
Regards,
Dave
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6057 Monday, September 13, 1999 10:19 AM Hot Wheels Caps BEAM Richard Caudle Evening all,
I couldn't resist the temptation and tore apart my XVRacer. It has a Hot
Wheels cap inside, at least the shrinkwrap on the cap has the logo.
Anyway, I hooked it up to a BiCORE circuit that's still on my breadboard,
and it seems to run a good long time before running down. 20 minutes or so
from a 5 second charge off a 9V battery. It would be nice to find the
vendor for these caps so that we can use them in our SE's! Anybody have
any inroads at Mattell?
Just musing...
Richard Caudle
richard@cqc.com
Home ICQ - Frankendaddy
Guardians of the sacred words: Nee, Ptang, and NeeWhon!
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