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Old 04-22-14, 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by mgw4jc
Would a carbon bike trip the sensor? I've usually just run it as mentioned and never even tried to trip it.
It's the wheels that matter. The inductance loop creates a field in whatever is near - if there's enough surface area of metal close enough to the loop, it changes the inductance in the loop and a detector triggers. So it generally needs to be metal - the rim of a bike tire - and it needs to be right over the loop.
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