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- Newsgroups: comp.robotics
- Path: sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!gateway!miki!wpns
- From: wpns@miki.pictel.com (Willie Smith)
- Subject: Re: Power supply for robots
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.105538.8697@miki.pictel.com>
- Organization: PictureTel Corporation
- References: <Bx4o8E.Ax4@alsvid.une.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 10:55:38 GMT
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- In article <Bx4o8E.Ax4@alsvid.une.edu.au> rbyrnes@alsvid.une.edu.au (Rod Byrnes) writes:
- [...]
- >I have also been toying with the idea of using a fuel cell to keep the battery
- >continually charged. This would require "feeding" the robot with cylinders
- >of hydrogen and oxygen, and controlling the flow of each to the cell.
- >"Recharging" the robot would then be the simple and quick process of changing
- >the cylinders.
-
- I'd be real wareful about playing with hydrogen. It's not only
- incredibly flamable, but it's hard to keep hydrogen from leaking,
- hydrogen flames are invisible(!), and the explosion possibilities are
- real interesting.
-
- Willie Smith
- wpns@pictel.com
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