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Re: Need help with Sensor

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Originally Posted by Random Dude
Actually the spec sheet says that the maximum output voltage when it sees a signal is 250mv.

That being said, if you are just using a simply volt meter, you will most likely not see anything near 0v, but some other voltage (Possibly around 4.5v for the type 0 beacon since it is only on for 10% of the time. Beacon 1 would be slightly slighty lower, say 4v due to it's 20% duty cycle)) Exactly what may vary from that though, depending on your meter.

Whoops, my mistake. I guess that's what I get for reading spec sheets late at night

I think we saw our recievers outputting 3.3v, but that was before we found a couple of things wrong with the beacon. Now we are indeed seeing 4.5v with the type 0, and 4.0 with the type 1. Thank you Kevin, for all the work you've done!