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Subject: 
Flame sensors?
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Date: 
Thu, 18 Nov 1999 20:21:38 GMT
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Greg Starr <{starr@unm}ihatespam{.edu}>
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I would like to do a fire-fighting competition next semester in our LEGO
class (like Trinity college, though much smaller scale).  What kind of
sensors are useful with the Handy Board for detecting flames?

Thanks.

--greg

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Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Flame sensors?
 
supposedly UV sensors are capable of detecting flames well. But I simply take the Sharp infrared reflective sensors and just use the detector. -p (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
  Re: Flame sensors?
 
Acroname has a pyroelectric sensor that is specifically designed to sense heat sources: (URL) Will +---...---+ | ^^ <^ ^> | | / òó ó°° \ | | / =Y= U \ | | Wendy, Will, Tatoosh & Tenzing | +---...---+ I went straight from shenanigans to crimes (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
  Re: Flame sensors?
 
Hi, We had very good luck in last years Trinity College contest with some cheap IR Photo transistors. We got some DIGI-KEY QSD422QT-ND photo transistors and found they gave us very good discrimination even at 4 feet away (which was the maximum range (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)

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