Thread: How should we wire the photoswitchs?
View Single Post
  #34   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 13-01-2011, 21:54
caffel caffel is offline
Registered User
AKA: Charlie Affel
FRC #0423
Team Role: Mentor
  
Join Date: Jan 2003
Rookie Year: 1999
Location: Springfield, PA
Posts: 72
caffel is an unknown quantity at this point
Re: How should we wire the photoswitchs?
Success !
Runs good.
Thanks in part to Al S. and Tem1514's direct and succinct answers.

I like the simplicity of the 12 supply, but the one problem that we had during our evening of testing turned out to be due to supply voltage drop as the battery went down. For a while we thought that we had broken the sensor.
The unit draws from 11 ma to 50 ma in our tests.
Since we have no plans (yet) for them after autonomous, I've decided to hold off on devising extreme measures to stabilize their supply voltage.

Still toying with a stratagem that says if three's good then five's better.
__________________
Charlie Affel,
Mentor 423