A Beam That Wouldn’t Light
In preparation for the Sola(r)Dex I needed to find a circuit that would charge a capacitor with a solar cell and when the charge reached a threshold turn on an output. I went through a number of different circuits including the Schmidtt circuit and the MOSFET switch but ultimately decided that the astable multivibrator would work best. It allows the oscillation between two outputs. I started with two LEDs to understand how it worked.
I took that what I learned about this circuit and applied it to the Sola(r)Dex. I also wanted to see if I could build a complex Beam-Bot. Well I built one, aw heck I built two the only issue is neither work. I’ve been troubleshooting it for a few weeks now and at this point I think a full rework is in order. It looks like there is continuity on one side but not the other but all of the connections look good.
