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Re: Problems with IR sensor

oops!

Here what I did so we could test the board without handling it directly when testing it.

The Top Side pic shows the battery reversed (a convenient way to store it). The 2 pin headers on the test board was all I had at the time, 3 pin headers would be better.

The Bot Side pic shows that I connected the Blk/Wht to the positive side of the 9 volt battery and the gray/purp wire to the negative side.

With my ribbon cable:

orn is pin 8, CMD0
grn is pin 6, CMD1
blu is pin 5, CMD2
yel is pin 3, CMD3

brn/red is not connected.

Good Luck!
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