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Unread 11-01-2005, 15:31
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Re: Accelerometer data sheet

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Originally Posted by Michael Desch
The accelerometer data sheet mentions a 'cross axis sensitivity error' of 3%, which suggests it must be more than single axis. One single axis accelerometer would be next to useless for nav purposes, unless your robot is going to move in 1D only.
Just because the accelerometer has a sensitivity to acceleration in another axis doesn't mean it measures that other axis. Most likely it is a byproduct of the way the sensor is designed. There is only one signal pin, which leads me to beleive it is only a single axis.

Thanks for the sheet Mike. It's not nearly as detailed as I'd had hoped, and I still have hope there is a more detailed one floating around somewhere, but this is certainly better then the single sheet FIRST had.