(Cheap) Light Activated DC Motors

ian field

Joined Oct 27, 2012
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Just to throw something out there, don't know if it would work, but how about one of those circuits that turn on/off those cheap solar powered garden lights?
I'm many cases; the light sensor was an LDR that merely damped the oscillator that drives the flyback inductor. An LDR has around 100R or somewhere close in good sunlight, so it wouldn't pass enough current on its own to control a motor.
 
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