Impulse detector unit

Impulse detector unitsStar Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition were a type of impulse detector, a device used to monitor the dangerously high power output of podracers. The units consisted of a flat base with a grill above it on the device's front with a triangular central surface in the center of the grill. A series of protrusions extended from the dark gray top of the device, including a signal clarifier and a receiver antenna. Tubing ran from each side of the device back round to the rear.
In 32 BBY,Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates the events of to 32 BBY. there was an impulse detector unit sat on the counter of the junkshop owned by the junk dealer Watto in the city of Mos Espa on the planet Tatooine when the Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn led a group of his allies into the store in search of a T-14 hyperdrive generator.
==Behind the scenes==
An impulse detector unit appeared in the prequel trilogy film Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, which was released on May 19, 1999.Star Wars Year By Year: A Visual History, Updated and Expanded Edition In the current Star Wars canon, the unit was identified in the 2018 reference book Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition, which was written by Pablo Hidalgo and David West Reynolds. The name for the unit originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where it was first used in the reference book Star Wars: Episode I The Visual Dictionary, written by ReynoldsStar Wars: Episode I The Visual Dictionary and published on May 26, 1999.
==Appearances==
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*La menace fantôme junior novelization
*The Phantom Menace Read-Along Storybook and CD
*The Skywalker Saga
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==Sources==
*Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia
*Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition 
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==Notes and references==
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