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Re: Maxbotix Range Finder
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Originally Posted by discobrisco View Post
Is anybody using this currently? We are using it and having problems picking up what we can only assume right now is the carpet and giving us extremely low values quite often. I'd be curious to see how anybody else is mounting this, and if anybody else is having this problem. We are running it off the analog output right now, and today are going to print a mount which will hopefully "focus" the cone more.

We're using it. We are mounting about 20 in above the ground. We bent some polycarb and made a little mount
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