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Originally Posted by boonski
Just a quick question...
How do you know if the gear tooth sensors are faulty? One of our mentors thinks that all the ones that we got are all faulty.
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We hooked ours up to an O-scope, set a spinning gear next to it, and watched the pulses.
You have to be very very close to the sensor for it to trigger. We were only a couple/few millimeters away from the gear when our sensor started to send out pulses.
We were considering mounting the sensors within the gearbox, but after some considerations related to cleaning debris off the sensor, have changed our minds and will make it more accessable so we can clean the sensor between bouts (without having to disassemble the gear box)