Alt-BEAM Archive

Message #07836



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Greg Powell gpowell@engr.uvic.ca
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 01:07:04 -0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: 1381


At 09:13 AM 11/19/1999 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Greg,
>
>what are you using the cap for? If you mean the one soldered to the
>solarcell you might want to check the capacity once again : .047uF and
>.0047uF caps don't hold a lotta juice for the entire cirquit. Instead
>try using a 4700uF (or larger) cap.
>
>If I've !completely! missed the point here, I apologize.

sorry that was my mistake, I meant 0.047F and 0.0047F. I have tried 1F and
.33F but they gave the same results. The only caps that seem to work fine
are the 4700uF caps but they don't do much but jiggle the pager motors. I
have also tried a 1F in parallel with a 4700uF and that worked somewhat but
that was not the solution I was after. The thing that gets me is that the
circuits must be working because they work with the smaller caps. I just
want them to work with larger ones so that I can get more work out of the
motors.
Plenty thanks,
Greg

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