Thread: How do you tell whether your sensor is detecting a crate or the diamond plate?
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If you angle the sensor up or down, it will still pick up the tape, but not the diamond plate - for the sensor to detect the diamond plate, it needs to be pointed straight on.

Or you could simply mount the sensor so that it's looking above the diamond plate (although you'll have to check the lexan to see if the sensor sees that as well). You don't see small stacks, but one could argue that you don't really need to see small stacks.
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