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Old 17-07-2016, 06:45 PM
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Originally Posted by luka View Post
Are you still following the CN thread? Filip Lolic is another person of great skill, see his build here. No plastic in front of the sensor.
Sure am...gazed upon his case with envy eyes. Which I had lather and mill...errr and skills to operate them!

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One use of the plastic in front of the sensor would be to locate the sensor in the centre of the window. But the PCB should already be doing that.
Another use I can think of is to keep it parallel with the window. The sensor is socketed so keeping it "flat" by pushing it all the way in may not work too well.
Yes this is what I was thinking. The PCB keeps the sensor at centre. Would be nice to have PCB metal standoffs near this to keep the sensor absolutely still and square.
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