Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #09256
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Bob Shannon bshannon@tiac.net
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 10:06:13 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: D1
Use the smart cap circuit from Vore-n-more. That will run anything, including
whole photopoppers.
Bumper314@aol.com wrote:
> OK...I have been working with this...I get the same weird flickering not
> switching on affect with both the flat low current output style gold caps and
> the long skinny ones that are used for solar rollers, but when I hooked my
> o-scope up to it, it seemed to latch much better. The circuit work quite well
> with those very efficient SMD style LEDs from solarbotics, but anything else
> will barely glow. I was wanting to use this with a blue LED..that would be
> cool looking, but if i cant get it to run anything over 2mA then theres no way
>
> Steve
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