We've been seeing some similar problems lately that I've been attributing
to lot curvature.
I'm curious to hear if you find any more info. We just received our 3rd complete
timer setup so we can swap hardware, but it doesn't seem to help.
-travis
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Mark Andy wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> We've got a JACircuits timer w/the laser retroreflective photohead setup
> (the standard setup I think).
>
> We've got four timing heads, but two of them act pretty flakey. The
> symptom is this... They'll emit a beam, and seem to line up (red & green
> leds both come on), but the timing box reports them being out of line.
>
> Frankly, we'd rather just throw money at the problem, but JACircuits is
> apparently out of stock on these heads until August or something.
>
> Does anyone have any troubleshooting information for these heads? When
> you take the rain/sun shield off, the photohead has a plastic screw on the
> top... What's that do? Anyone know the manufacturer and model/part # of
> the heads so that I could get a data sheet to see what voltages are
> supposed to be where, etc. etc.?
>
> At this point, If someone had an option for an industrial laser, I'd
> probably use it. :-) I don't understand why we can't have something
> that'll shoot a beam 1000' and work reliably all the time in any
> weather...
>
> Related to this... Anyone have any specs on the proper resistance range
> for the cables? I'd like to find a way to check cable/connector/etc.
> condition _prior_ to running a cable out to a light the morning (or, when
> stuff breaks, the afternoon) of an event...
>
> Mark
>
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