[oopic] Range Sensors

Hi,
Has anyone used the MaxSonar LV EZ1 range sensor before?

Due to an accident with too much bare capacitor legs causing a short
(It was an honest mistake honest!) I've managed to kill my Sharp
GP2d120's. For a replacement, I was thinking about using ultrasonic
instead of IR.

Firstly, is this a better way of object sensing?

Secondly what sensor to use? I am going to have 3 in total on the
front of my Rogue Blue ERS robot chassis.

The one I was looking at was:
http://www.robotchat.org/index.php?topic=11.0

This is due to it using a analogue voltage as an option (Which is
great for my OOBoard) I've looked at the Daventech ones but they seem
a lot more complicated to read from. (And the higher models require
I2C bus)

Are there better ones at around the same price as the MaxSonar?

Cheers,

Jas

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