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From: "Joe Tochka" eyOr@beld.net
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:13:08 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: 1000k pots
you can check out the 100k pot and photo diodes below:
http://WWW.RADIOSHACK.COM
100k pot
http://www.radioshack.com/ProductCatalog/ProductDetail/Index/1,2098,CTLG_7_9007409,00.html
photodiodes
http://www.radioshack.com/ProductCatalog/ProductDetail/Index/1,2098,CTLG_7_9001571,00.html
anyone know any other good stores for buying stuff from online? with low shipping costs?
>Alas and alack, the Shack doesn't sell photodiodes. In most apps, the
>resistors will not work. Are you making a FLED pvore? Ben Hitchcock's (sp)
>works without doiodes. Try that. URL?
>(http://wollongong.apana.au.com/~ben"
target="_top" >http://wollongong.apana.au.com/~ben)??
I dunno.
>-William
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Corey Centen biobotics@hotmail.com
>To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
>Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 8:43 AM
>Subject: 1000k pots
>
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Are 1000k pots too high to make a standard photovore? I couldn't find any
>> small 100k's at radio shack, I think they were all out. Also, can
>> photoresistors be used in the place of photodiodes? I got something at
>radio
>> shack called cadmium photocells. I'm not sure if they are the same as the
>> photodiodes or resistors? Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks!
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