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$50 robot/photoresistors
« on: January 21, 2008, 07:17:29 PM »
Instead of purchasing the photoresistors from radioshack, I'd like to purchase them from Digikey with the rest of my purchase.  I tried locating some myself, but there are so many options with so many specs. Does anyone know of a digikey part# that would work great for this?

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Re: $50 robot/photoresistors
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2008, 03:23:32 PM »
do a search for:
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phototransistor
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Re: $50 robot/photoresistors
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2008, 07:33:38 PM »
I don't think the values matters too much (someone please correct me if i'm wrong). here is a link to digikey photoresistors  http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?KeywordSearch . If you have a radio shack next to you I highly reccomend you just get them there. Sorry I couldn't help you more!
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Re: $50 robot/photoresistors
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2008, 07:59:07 PM »
yea value doesnt affect it much. but generally if i use more than one i get the same size for all.

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Re: $50 robot/photoresistors
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2008, 08:15:15 PM »
yea value doesnt affect it much. but generally if i use more than one i get the same size for all.

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a 1 M ohm photoresistor and a 10K photoresistor require different software code and also teh comparator , comparing input, would also have to be changed
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Re: $50 robot/photoresistors
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2008, 08:25:14 PM »
It matters in what your second resistor value is, and the time response (time it takes to change with light). For a photovore, I wouldn't worry about the value . . .

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Re: $50 robot/photoresistors
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2008, 09:09:18 PM »
It matters in what your second resistor value is, and the time response (time it takes to change with light). For a photovore, I wouldn't worry about the value . . .

true but if you use a POT procedure (internal capacitor discharge i think) to measure resistance without a second resistor ( like you would have in ADC), then it matters
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Re: $50 robot/photoresistors
« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2008, 04:05:04 PM »
but this is for the $50 robot. It doesn't matter for this.
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