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Message #09809



To: "BEAM" beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "William Cox" william@characterlink.net
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 16:00:59 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: My first Photovore


Are you using the Namiki motors? Try hooking up a 1.5 volt battery up to it.
It should turn.

>it just spins endlessly in both directions

That sound WEIRD to me! But, I'm a relative newbie to electronics also...

>for the siemmens IR1 sensors what is the leg which goes to
>the pot? the long or short one?

The LONG lead is "+" (positive), and the SHORT is "-" (negative). Just
working from memory from circuits I'VE seen, I'd hook up the LONG side to
the POT.

-William

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