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Flame sensors?
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Thu, 18 Nov 1999 20:21:38 GMT
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Greg Starr <starr@unmSPAMCAKE.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?
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| 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?
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| 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?
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| 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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