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Re: Light sensor values
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Fri, 17 Sep 1999 18:45:51 GMT
Original-From: 
Ben Williamson <BENW@saynotospamPOBOX.COM>
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On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Matthew Miller wrote:

> Mark Ferris <mdf@teleport.com> wrote:
> > came with the kit, when positioned over the white it reads 60.  When
> > over black it reads 40.  Not a huge change and I would have expected a • [snip]
> > What range of values are other people seeing out of the light sensor?
> 
> That's pretty typical for what I've seen.

Me too.  You can get pretty close to 100 in direct sunlight and 0 in total
darkness.  By comparison the difference in the amount of light reflected
by black and white paper isn't all that great.

Cheers,

- Ben.

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Ben Williamson       benw@pobox.com     http://www.pobox.com/~benw/



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  Re: Light sensor values
 
(...) [snip] (...) That's pretty typical for what I've seen. (27 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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