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Message #12558



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Mike Kulesza" mikekulesza@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 18:07:18 GMT
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Solarize your walker, if you dare.2 new bots



>Sure it can be done. Mark T does it, and if you wanted to you could do it
>yourself. Your going to need to change your idea of a solarbot first
>however. If you were going to make it solarpowered, you would probabbly
>need
>a solarpannel to charge some batteries. This wouldn't be an SE type
>endevour. You could power it off solarcells and capacitors, but like you
>said you need really effecient motors. REALLY effecient. That's where the
>'if you dare' part starts. Because you're going to shuttle out hundreds of
>dollars for those motors. And even then, there really is a limit to the
>amount of energy you get from the solarcells. So, you'll still have a
>rather
>inactive bot.
>
>dennison


I would go for full-time solar power. I there's enough light, the bot lives,
if not, than the bot stands still. This would require efficient motors, and
a large solar panel - one that would cover the entire bot, or even more. The
walker would essentially look like a flat table.


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Mike Kulesza
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email: beambotix@hotmail.com
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12559 Sun, 26 Mar 2000 10:56:07 -0800 [alt-beam] Re: NPN or PNP? alt-beam@eGroups.com "Droidmakr"
You might start by looking here:

http://wollongong.apana.org.au/~ben/info/testing.html

It may be of help

So long,
Droidmakr


"brian boeckmann" wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone could help me sort my transitors between
PNP and NPN. They are all labeled differently.
> I have a simple voltage, current, resisitence meter. Thanks for your
time.
>
>

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