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Subject: 
Re: IR Collision avoidance
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
Date: 
Sat, 1 Mar 1997 02:17:20 GMT
Original-From: 
Jun Nolasco <nolasco@inx^NoMoreSpam^.net>
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Hmmm. What voltage and/or LEDs are you using? Assuming 5V,
your LEDs age passing only around half a milliamp of current. I am
using a 100ma LED and I can only get less than a foot of detection.
Am I missing something here?


Jun Nolasco



Chris Moore wrote:
   o-------------------+--------------+--------------------+
J7 o                   |              |                    |
   o---------          /              /                    /
            |          \              \                    \
            |     2.2K /       2.2K   /              2.2K  /
            |          \              \                    \
            |          |              |                    |
            |       (IR LED)       (IR LED)             (IR LED)
            |          |              |                    |
            -----------+--------------+--------------------+

Chris



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  Re: IR Collision avoidance
 
(...) Those are the IR LED's - the one's that transmit the IR light that the receiver sees. Also, while I'm at it, I found out that the diagram above isn't completely accurate (I drew it from memory). The circuit I really use is like this: (...) (28 years ago, 28-Feb-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)

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