Imaging (sensors)

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Resolved! VL53L5CX Power Consumption

Hello @John E KVAM ,Table 14 in the datasheet shows power consumption in Autonomous as going as low as 4.5 mW, but is this only the AVDD power? or total device power? Because I do measure low power draw at those levels, but only on the AVDD pin (and ...

DBonh.1 by Associate III
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VL53L8 smalles FoV

Hi,I have a project for which I need to measure a tank level of tanks with a maximum depth of 3 meters. The challenging part is that many tanks have filling tubes with an inner diameter of 50mm but a length of 1000mm worst case. I have made this draw...

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daan by Associate II
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Resolved! Is the VL53L5CX ToF a good choice, considering all the Time-of-Flight sensors family realized by ST for detecting obstacles below the floor level such as holes or stairs?

Hi community, I would like to understand if the VL53L5CX is a good choice to develop an application to detect holes and stairs. I decided to study them since I was impressed by these things:The FoV of 45 ° horizontally or vertically;The granularity o...

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VNava.1 by Associate III
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VL53L5CX Bouncing Issue

Hello,Even in the SparkFun product introduction video (2.45-3.00 min),  the representative presentation shows there is some bouncing in the sensor reading. I have also experienced the same bouncing issue. How can we deal with this problem? Regards,Fe...

FKara.3 by Senior
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VL53V1CB calibration

HI,I am using ULD API function VL53L1X_CalibrateOffset() and VL53L1X_CalibrateXtalk() to calibrate the sensor and then I store the parameters in EEprom and everything works fine: with VL53L1X_GetResult() I can see the distance of the object and when ...

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Resolved! adjust trigger for VL53L8CX

Hi,I have a VL53L8CX Sensor on a Satel-VL53L8 board that I am controlling with a custom microcontrollerboard that has an ESP32-S2 chip. I want the microcontroller to sleep until the sensor triggers the Int Pin, based on a threshold that I configure i...

Paula by Associate
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