thank you so much I will try
I tried to test the aj-sr04m in water. I lowered it from a boat into the water at different depths. The readings are always minimal (200 mm). This is without correction for the speed of ultrasound in water. If the sensor is pulled out of the water, the readings change, everything works. I tried it in two modes - the default - when we measure the duration of the Echo pulse (R19 is missing) and in the M2 mode R19 = 120 kOm). I used code examples from here: How to Communicate Waterproof Ultrasonic Sensor AJ-SR04M/JSN-SR04T with Arduino/ESP32 ā Probots Blog
Doesnāt work in water, regardless of depth. Tell me what to pay attention to?
how deep was the water, the single transducer wont get readings under 1.5 meters when in water. you need a dual transducer version to get readings down to 15cm.
I understand this, I read on forums about minimum depths. And I tried it at greater depths and not in barrels, but on the lake. Apart from the minimum depth, are there any special features? Does everything work in any mode (M1, M2, ā¦)?
it should work, it has been tested here
Thanks, Iāll try again
Was this test somewhere? I want to do it 
I need to use this sonar?
yes thats the sonar I used.
today was the first time i had a chance to test this sonar is some deep water. as far as I know the pond is an old mine thatās covered in weeds so i suspect the vegetation was inhibiting the sonar, but still it was getting intermittent returns, the deepest reading was at 21 meters. I would like to do some testing over a cleaner bottom like sand or concrete to see if it improves its performance.
I have got a fishing sounder that im going to take next time to verify the depth readings as i dont think the pond is that deep, I think 21 meters is a false reading.
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I have been doing some more investigation with the dual transducer sonar. I needed to space them apart by at least 25cm before it would start to give reliable readings.
This is strange because I am sure i have tested the sensors last year in the bath and they worked fine with almost no spacing, so I think the board has been changed somehow and its the new versions causing issues. I think the issue is that because of the speed of sound is so much faster and incompressible, A strong signal is arriving at the receiver directly causing interference and the sensor to miss the echo.
I think this is why Iām getting such intermittent returns from my sonar when testing it.
Perhaps itās all about the purity of the water, itās clean in the bathroom and the signal is not re-reflected. And in natural conditions, the water is not so clean. And yet these are just parking sensors, you canāt expect a good signal from them.
I am going to install one of the single transducer sonar boards to test if the issues are specific to the dual transducer model.
This could explain a lot, I was probably using version 1 sensors when i installed them in my first boat, now Iām using a mix of v2.0 and v3.0 sensors that are apparently very unstable. from the video it looks like the changed the crystal from 8mhz to 11mhz so the frequency has probably also shifted slightly.
It looks like you can still find original modules by looking for the AJ-SR04M and checking its got a 8mhz crystal.
I found this new sonar module. its a RCWL-1655 and it looks like it could be a updated version of the AJ-SR04T that supports uart and i2c
some reading here indicates that it can have issues with soft targets so its possible the weeds were inhibiting the sonar return /
These little led displays make testing much easier as i donāt need any other electronics connected to get a reading
the A02YYUW should still work
I totally forgot you had made this video. it shows it working how I remember these sensors operating, I wonder what has changed. Im going to have to get my old boat out to test as it should still have v1 sensors in it.
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