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Choosing a sharp Ir rangefinder
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yankeefan238
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Choosing a sharp Ir rangefinder
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January 20, 2009, 08:36:10 PM »
Hello, I was looking for rangfinders and there was one with a scanning range of about a foot and another with 5 feet. I am going to be using it mostly indoors and I was wondering which one would be better?
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Soeren
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Re: Choosing a sharp Ir rangefinder
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January 21, 2009, 04:05:45 AM »
Hi,
Nobody but yourself can answer that, since it is you who decides what it should be looking for.
The size and speed of your robot/vehicle/whatever will determine how far you need to "look".
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Søren
A rather fast and fairly heavy robot with quite large wheels needs what? A lot of power?
Please remember...
Engineering is based on numbers - not adjectives
paulstreats
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Re: Choosing a sharp Ir rangefinder
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January 21, 2009, 05:08:40 AM »
Try not to get a digital one. These have set ranges (most probably the one that you looked at was a digital one)
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Soeren
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Re: Choosing a sharp Ir rangefinder
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January 21, 2009, 05:18:08 AM »
Hi,
Some have "digital range", i.e. one set point and an output of either 0 or 1
Some have digital
output
, i.e. 0 to 255
Some have analog output i.e. ~0.3V to ~3V
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Søren
A rather fast and fairly heavy robot with quite large wheels needs what? A lot of power?
Please remember...
Engineering is based on numbers - not adjectives
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