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Update on Lighthouse Sculpture | 15 comments (15 topical, editorial)

Re: Update on Lighthouse Sculpture (3.00 / 0) (#7)
by electrondady1 on Mon Dec 26th, 2005 at 05:06:07 PM MST
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ok, come almost due east. don't get your feet wet in lake michigan.and you'll need a boat for lake huron! i'm at about 44.4 deg n.lat. and and 80 deg. longatude. west of greenwich. no sun block required. but bring a warm coat! diodes i understand but i'm just starting to come to grips with the function of capacitors and there possible use in a batteryless heating system .also , the effects on voltage from resistors also, transistors etc, etc, a battery of strings of zener diodes in parallel, each diode in series with a small value resistor. anyone wanna' sketch that out!!! split each resistor into a resistor in series with another resistor in parallel with an LED and have the LEDs light up in sequence as wind speed increases (as succeeding Zeners conduct). oh yea, ive got a lot of reading to do!!

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Re: Update on Lighthouse Sculpture (3.00 / 0) (#11)
by finnsawyer on Tue Dec 27th, 2005 at 09:26:15 AM MST
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Well, good luck. You can probably compress the time needed by getting a book on basic circuit theory. Another possibility would be to enroll in an electronics course at a nearby college. Considering those courses usually have labs, you might enjoy it. As far as drawing the circuit, not so easy to do. Nobody seems to have thought of producing a program to make it easy to do. I made such a program in the days of the Commodore 64, but Bill Gates made his Windows System too hard to work with.

More specifically, I live a mile from Lake Superior just west of the Portage Shipping Canal.
GeoM
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Update on Lighthouse Sculpture | 15 comments (15 topical, 0 editorial)

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