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Message #07652



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com, wundoba@pacbell.net, bshannon@tiac.net, dennlill@buffnet.net, kyled@cruzers.com
From: Chiu-Yuan Fang chiumanfu@home.com
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 13:21:54 -0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Chiu's Contest Results


Finally...here's the results for My Most Innovative Form of Motion Contest.
Thanks to all of you who voted.

1. Darrell Johnson - Mod-Worm 1.0
2. Bob Shannon - LEM
3. Kyle Davenport - hUFO
4. Dennison Bertram - DiskRat

To the contestants, please send me your address so I can ship out your prize.
Thanks!

--
Chiu-Yuan Fang
chiumanfu@home.com
ICQ=5614919
http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/6897/beam2.html



7653 Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:00:11 -0600 [alt-beam] SUCCESS (Sort-Of) Solar Head Project beam@sgiblab.sgi.com SG well, i have foolishly NOT dismantled my breadboarded
SolarPShead circuit. I thought i might tinker with it some more before I
took the solar engine off and went to batteries, assebmbling it step by
step LIKE WE ALL SHOULD DO!
(forgive me wilf, i will prob do it after today)

i did replace the .01 cap on pins 13 and 15 with a .022uf and ALSO replaced
the 74HC with a 74AC.

old results where: not enuff power from motor outputs
new results: pager motor spins for about 2 seconds (yup! jus two!).

this IS progress! (heh heh) also this is with a .047F gold Cap
for power storage.

Now the questions i gotta answer is -- i wunder what is eating all my
power? what is draining that cap so quickly?

I think it has sumpthin to do with the resistor values and until the 5M
pots come in i can't do much.
so far its exactly like darrell's circuit, except for the .022uf cap and
the AC chip, except pins 6 & 8 are grnded.

but, hey! progress!
-Sparky

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