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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 ***...*** * Greg Starr, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | | | | Re: Flame sensors? —Peter
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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)
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| | | | | Re: Flame sensors? —Will Bain
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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)
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| | | | | Re: Flame sensors? —Barry Brouillette
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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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