PhotoEye sensor, allowed?

[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by DjMaddius

Photoeye sensor referring to the sensor which most vending machines use to see if the item has dropped. We are looking at using 3 of these to determine if we have balls in our storing area or not. Instead of normal kill switches.

I'm assuming that it would be allowed as it is only a Digital signal but before we use any I'd like to make sure. I can't seem to find anything in the manual prohibiting them.

As long as you use IR you should be fine, there are laser beam break sensors that serve the same purpose, these would have been illegal in previous years based on the ban on lasers. I am not on a team this year and have not verified this rule still exists.