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Problems with 2011 Retro Sensors

We are using the 2011 Retro-reflective Sensors this year to sense our wheel rotations. We spent a lot of time debugging them and we have determined that if our voltage drops below 10 volts, the sensors will bugg-out and add in extra counts. We temporarily fixed this problem by wiring the power from these senors to the 24 volt power supply on the board. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to supply a better voltage to these sensors without using the 24 volt hookups from the PD board?