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Message #11149
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Dennison Bertram" dibst11+@pitt.edu
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:28:38 -0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Radio shack solar panels
Do not buy the radio shack solarcells they are absolute crap. I'm not
kidding. Those solar cells are the worst possible way to get started or just
plain do anything in beam. Honestly they are innefecient, fragile,
grotesque, large, and difficult. Stick to sun cerams or other such devices.
dennison
I was looking around, out of curiosity, (it didn't kill my #$%& cat, wait a
minute i don't have a cat!?) at the radio shack web site, i found some low
voltage high current panels there, well okay one panel, that puts out .45
VDC
(dinky) with 1000 mA (pretty cool) you'd need to boost the voltage with a
second panel of some sort (cheat calculator cell) but that would provide
some
awesome ambient light operation. I'll have to check it out for more info!
-Spencer
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