Alt-BEAM Archive

Message #07750



To: "beam@sgiblab.sgi.com" beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Dan Larson" dlarson@citilink.com
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 08:05:04 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: BEAM Prism ??


On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 23:01:38 PST, Timothy Flytcher wrote:

>Idea... the sun moves in an arc... so that it moves up and down as well as
>side to side... if the prism is mounted so it moves in the same arc as the
>sun then you only have to control one motion...
>Timothy...
>

Yes, but that arc will be ascend or descend slightly each day.

True enough though, that it would simplify the design greatly.

TTYL,

Dan




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