Thread: IR Beacons
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Re: IR Beacons

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Originally Posted by Kevin Watson
One important note: If you're building an official field, with two beacons running at the same time, drive the beacons with one EDU-RC because you don't want the IR sensors "seeing" multiple pulses arriving at the same time.
That brings up a question I've been wondering about. What about regionals with multiple fields (or Atlanta, for that matter)? We've only gotten to play with the emitters/detectors a little bit so far but one single IR LED has no problem filling our entire practice room (which is a good deal larger than the field) with IR...