Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #10375
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: BUDSCOTT@aol.com
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 20:35:16 EST
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: photodiodes
hmm, ya know what. probably. i did see CdS photoelectric diodes, or whatever
those things are, frankly they just don't have quite the quaity and anolouge
charecteristics of PIN photodiodes. Oh well, kind of a tangent, like i said
radio shack will never live up to what a BEAMer needs. oops!
-Spencer
10376 Thu, 17 Feb 2000 14:44:05 -0500 [alt-beam] neurotic pvore name stumpy "BEAM" "William Cox" Hi all,
I've got a weird pvore here. Sometimes it just stops working. Yes, it's
really strange. It just stops. Today it was working fine, I left it for an
hour and a half, hooked it back up, and it didn't work. After trying a whole
bunch of stuff, I finally connect the cap up to a 2.4 battery sources,
reverse bias, + to -, - to +, for a split second and it works. This is the
second time that I've been able to use this solution, but WHY does it
work??? Isn't there anywhere I can get some good panels, except from
Solarbotics? Thanks.
-William
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