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    • Overall Rating: 4
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 3
    • Ease Of Use: 4
    • Usefulness: 3
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    Good for the price

    posted by davet76 on 04/18/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:General (knows how to use it) - Ownership:1 day to 1 week

    Pros:
    It's cheap and it works okay. PRetty easy to wire up - with an Arduino 5V to 5V, GND to GND and Out to a digital pin configured as input. You can connect it up without a microcontroller - basically if you have 5V and GND connected, the out pin gives 3.3V (...
    Cons:
    The orientation of the pins makes it hard to plug into a breadboard - and I didn't have femal to male connectors to had to use ...
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 5
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 5
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    IR Infrared Motion Detection Sensor Module (DC 5V~20V)

    posted by Troncs on 04/15/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:General (knows how to use it) - Ownership:1 week to 1 month

    Pros:
    Easy to use motion detector with variable sensitivity and variable output-High time (2 sec ... few minutes). Output High-Level is 3,3 V, an 1k resistor is already on the board so you can connect the base of an Transistor or a LED directly to the output.
    Cons:
    The Ti-Time (During this time period, triggering is inhibited) was to long (approx 3 sec) for my application. I changed R12 (1 ...
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 4
    • Ease Of Use: 4
    • Usefulness: 5
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    Nice product for price

    posted by Henkisme on 03/25/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:General (knows how to use it) - Ownership:more than 1 month

    Pros:
    Great product for the price! Worked great in some of my DIY projects. Very easy to use, simple digital output. Great product for beginners and also suitable for more advanced prototypers. Module is small enough to be easy to hide and a guarantee for fun pro...
    Cons:
    Because of some of the bigger parts on the module it's not very easy to stick in a breadboard. I also haven't found much docume...
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    • Overall Rating: 4
    • Price: 4
    • Quality: 5
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 3
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    Good quality and performance. No instructions

    posted by tdetrina on 03/25/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:General (knows how to use it) - Ownership:1 week to 1 month

    Pros:
    It's a product of a nice quality and very easy to use for people which are getting started on arduino. I found some examples on internet and started to use it inmediately
    Cons:
    Its design could be better (capacitors do not let you install it at the center of protoboard) and It doesnt have instructions, ...
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 4
    • Quality: 4
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 5
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    Great quality sensor for a cheap price

    posted by muhandis on 03/02/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:General (knows how to use it) - Ownership:more than 1 month

    Pros:
    Very sensitive and easy to use. It's also configurable using the two pots it comes with, which can also easily be replaced with a digital one (or two)
    Cons:
    Would be nice if a datasheet was available. But you don't really expect that from these kinds of assembled components.
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    • Overall Rating: 4
    • Price: 2
    • Quality: 4
    • Ease Of Use: 4
    • Usefulness: 4
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    great deal

    posted by edsoncfgarcia on 02/20/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:more than 1 month

    Pros:
    Very cheap and relient item. I am surprised as sensitive it is. I like it and would order more for other projects involved motion detection. Easy to use motion detector with variable sensitivity and variable output-High time (2 sec ... few minutes).
    Cons:
    Doesn't has a CDS cell for to disable operation when ambient light levels are high. Board could be smaller If device so small ...
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 5
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 5
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    Very good

    posted by ahmedh95 on 01/29/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:General (knows how to use it) - Ownership:1 week to 1 month

    Pros:
    It's very good and easy to use. It's very sensitive and can work within 2 meters as far as I've tested it.
    Cons:
    Not a con, but it's not ideal to use in small spaces. It would be ideal to put it in a room and it will trigger whenever someon...
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 5
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 5
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    nice item

    posted by f11lbert on 01/29/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Novice  (still getting used to it) - Ownership:1 day to 1 week

    Pros:
    Very cheap and relient item. I am surprised as sensitive it is. I like it and would order more for other projects involved motion detection.
    Cons:
    No cons at all. May be one - you have to ajust two rotating resistors to have time and sensitive you need. But in fatc I think ...
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 5
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 5
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    universal little PIR for unbeatable price

    posted by RBMK9000 on 01/03/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:1 week to 1 month

    Pros:
    There is all documentation for it: HC-SR501. You can connect CdS light sensor in it. It has two potentiometers and jumper pads so you can setup to suit your needs. The plastic lens is removable, so you can fit another or fit it differently.
    Cons:
    no light sensor, but you can put a Cds in it, it has free holes for it, go for R3
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 4
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 5
    2 DXPoints
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    Nice and cheap PIR Module

    posted by Hexacat on 10/13/2012 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:1 week to 1 month

    Pros:
    Easy to use motion detector with variable sensitivity and variable output-High time (2 sec ... few minutes). Output High-Level is 3,3 V, an 1k resistor is already on the board so you can connect the base of an Transistor or a LED directly to the output.
    Cons:
    The Ti-Time (During this time period, triggering is inhibited) was to long (approx 3 sec) for my application. I changed R12 (1 ...
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