Hall Effect Sensors vs. Proxes
While doing some of the minor website maintenance tasks that you sometimes have to do when …
Sensors
Input devices
Intrinsic Safety
When using control devices in hazardous areas such as explosive or flammable atmospheres special care must …
Photoeyes
Some basic info on photoeyes from the Primer: Photoelectric sensors or Photoeyes transmit and receive a …
LVDTs
One of the first applications I wrote about on this blog back in January 2011 was …
ID Systems
Early in my career I became in involved in material handling systems more often than any …
Filter Tester
In another post I described an air filter tester built with NAS in the late 1990s. …
Precision Measurement Application
This station was used to measure a small crystal used in the manufacture of medical CT …
Leak Tester
This is another application done with NAS from about 1998. We did a lot of vision, …
Non-Industrial Industrial Applications
I was browsing through some old pictures of systems trying to get some inspiration for today’s …
Choosing the Right Sensor
With all of the different types of sensors available and so many manufacturers and vendors competing …