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Re: Official Beacon Tracking Code Posted

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Originally Posted by Matthew_H
I have noticed that the diagram that FIRST has posted on the photo sensor is wrong if you go by the picture. If you follow were pin 1 goes it is correct but looking how the sensor ir positioned on diagram pin 1 and 3 are swapped. We caught this by looking at the datasheet from http://www.kevin.org/frc/TSOP34840.pdf

I hope this will help any other teams that might be having some small problems with the IR sensors.

Matthew

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Holy cow! I just found the document and it is backwards. I wonder how many teams have used this document. Matthew, as this is your find, you should start a new thread with this information.

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Last edited by Kevin Watson : 28-01-2004 at 22:58. Reason: Icky grammer.