Re: Rangefinder Pairs

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From: Robert W Murphree
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 19:16

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frank@evax2.engr.arizona.edu (Frank Manning) writes:

>Occasionally the subject of Polaroid rangefinders appears in this
>newsgroup. I was wondering how much range you can get with the rangefinders
>if you use a pair of transducers facing each other -- that is, a receiver
>and separate transmitter. Has anybody tried this?

Yes, they have been tried.  Talk to kuc in EE at Yale.The mathematics
and physics has been worked out.  Good for deciding if a target is  
a corner or edge.

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