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Re: Optical sensor for use with retroflective tape

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Originally Posted by WizenedEE View Post
Last year we attached two magnets in opposite directions on opposite sides of our shooter wheel, and put a latching hall effect sensor on to read them. It worked extremely well with our speed getting up to 3300 rpm.
We did this also. We epoxied a cylindrical magnet to the end of the wheel shaft. We got pulses that looked good on the oscilloscope though we got better readings when we added a low pass filter so I suspect there was some high frequency noise on the output. This solution cost us maybe $5.00 in parts.