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Re: How to read a pulse?

If I'm reading that datasheet correctly (it's hard to be certain of that), then your sensor there is just a simple proximity sensor. It will only switch on when an object is in detection range, and off when it's not. There's no pulsing or anything to indicate the actual distance of the object. Atleast, I don't see any indication of that, for all that it talks about triangulation. Do you have some way of measuring the output to confirm that it's giving you a PWM signal and not just off-on?
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