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Message #11355
To: BEAM List beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Flaming Headphones headphones99@iname.com
Date: Sunday, March 05, 2000 11:34 AM
Subject: Pager motor troubles
>Hi guys,
>Well I finally went ahead and finished my first photovore, based on the one
>from Chiu's page, but I've got problems. It seems to work fine, except for
>the photodiodes being overwhelmed, but I'm going to fix that. I really
>needed to adjust the trimpot, and so I fiddled with that until I got my
>heat shrink for the motor shaft. Anyway, after I put the heat shrink on the
>motor shafts and tried to set the trimpot, I noticed that one of my pager
>motors wasn't working at all. I took off the motor and hooked it up to a
>good battery, no spinning. What do you think I did to wreck this motor? Or
>is it wrecked at all? I am missing the "cap" off of the back of the motor
>that seems to hold the other end of the shaft, but I had it working
>beforehand without this piece on. The motor is a 1701 Namiki from
>Solarbotics, when they still came with the weights on.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mike, AKA Flaming Headphones
>
>ICQ: 17940917
>E-mail: headphones99@iname.com
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