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Re: Unable to read accelerometer

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Originally Posted by wireties View Post
I have seen that in so many posts that we tried both and both worked (and both were noisy). I wonder what makes the difference. Perhaps it depends on which molded cable one is using (though I'm confident we have never ordered one, all came from past KOPs).
I think it might have to do with length of the cable. I2C is a serial signal so the extra latency may be casing problems. (this still doesn't make much sense to me).

How much noise are you getting, and is it evenly distributed on all three axis?
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