<div class="gmail_quote">On 20 October 2012 23:41, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dabigboy@cox.net" target="_blank">dabigboy@cox.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
That's encouraging! What I'm really wondering is if I can actually get usable readings if I rotate magnets in a complete 360* circle around the sensor? So you tried exactly this and it worked?<br></blockquote><div>
<br>I'm sure I did. I also used an analogue meter so that I could better see how it what reacting.<br><br>I'll have some students doing some setup work with these over the next week or two - if you're not in a desperate hurry I can post their results for you.<br>
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The great thing about these sensors is they are tiny, weigh practically nothing, and could measure position of something without introducing any mechanical load or requiring intrusive mechanical interfacing with the thing being measured.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>That's exactly the reason we're using them.<br><br>Roy.<br><br>