<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 3/2/02 10:20:09 AM Eastern Standard Time, tpaddock@seanet.com writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Yep, they are MEMS (Micro Electronic Machined Sensors
<BR>or Micro Etched... or Machined something something
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<BR>That would be Micro Electronic Mechanical Systems, I believe.
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<BR>Sensors... something). I don't know what package free samples
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<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">are available in now. Mine are surface mount. They are probably
<BR>just bare molicules that no human can solder to now.
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<BR>One thing about them is they work down to DC. Accelerometers
<BR>that use charge amps are AC, so they won't work for tilt.
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<BR>I think I have a voltage-mode one somewhere...might drag it out and mess with it if I get a chance.
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<BR>-Chris
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