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Re: Photosensor/spacing

It turns out that since the sensors are digital with threshold calibration and our algorithm requires that if the line is in between two sensors, both adjacent sensors should "light up", we spaced them such that the adjacent sensors are slightly less than the width of the tape so that both sensors are on the inside edge of the tape. So they are approx. 1.5" center-to-center apart.
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