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Old 2008-04-09
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Originally Posted by Veil Guy View Post
Dron3,

I don't believe lidar guns are calibrated per se, given that the speed of light, for all intents and purposes, is a constant at 3.0 x 10^8 m/s and lidar works on time of (round-trip) flight calculations.

I believe all Gen III and later police lidar guns basically go through a "self-test" on power-up that if failure in indicated makes them unusable until serviced.

Veil Guy
Pro Laser 3 self test takes about 20 seconds to complete. When I was firing it, I noticed it checked stuff like "eeprom", etc.


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