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If you are sourcing a ultrasonic ranging module , the HC-SR04 is good choose . Its stable performance and high ranging accuracy  make it a popular module in electronic market .

Compared to the Shap IR ranging module , HC-SR04 is more inexpensive than it . But it has the same ranging accuracy and longer ranging distance.

Specifications:

power supply :5V DC

quiescent current : <2mA

effectual angle: <15°

ranging distance : 2cm – 500 cm

resolution : 0.3 cm

There are 4 pins out of the module : VCC , Trig, Echo, GND . So it’s a very easy interface for controller to use it ranging. The all process is : pull the Trig pin to high level  for more than 10us impulse , the module start ranging ; finish ranging , If you find an object in front , Echo pin will be high level , and based on the different distance,it will take the different duration of high level. So we can calculated the distance easily :

Distance = ((Duration of high level)*(Sonic :340m/s))/2

finally , look at the back of the module .All of the chip in the module have been burnish , maybe the author want to prevent the designed from plagiarism. But ultrasonic ranging module is nearly the same principle, so it’s not hard to speculated that the role of the chip — I’m sure at least one 74series chip on it ; ) . It is not a difficult task to crack it , but … it’s at so low a price , even cheaper than your copy .

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