Thread: Line Sensor Height
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Re: Line Sensor Height
Ambient light should not be a problem with these because there infared and have a small beam spread at a close range. - These are nothing like the Lego light sensors - those will detect any type of light. These Allen-Bradley units are industrail photo-eyes and are made to be used in a factory environment, and are unaffected by normal lighting.
Also each photo eye has a range adjustment on the top. For what were using them for you many want to have them turned all the way down.
The data sheet that came with these has a lot of good information in the graph tables about the beam spread and distance.

We are now testing our's with our Lunacy bot, we just made a flat plate with the sensor mounted to it and then attached the plate to the bot's trailer hitch.
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