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August 2006
Contrinex has introduced a C8 format version of its popular high performance, low cost, analogue, inductive sensors that have an extremely long sensing distance and many advantages over digital sensors.
In common with other products in the range, these new sensors have a sensing distance of 4mm, four times that provided by conventional devices. To achieve this sensing distance with normal analogue sensors a unit with a diameter of at least M18 would have to be specified.
The range provides excellent temperature stability between -25°C and +70°C and outstanding repeat accuracy. The repackaging into a C8 format provides a sideways orientation that means the sensing head can access the target much more easily in many applications.
Most of the sensors in the Contrinex analogue range provide both analogue voltage and current signals from the same device providing increased design flexibility. Sensors with analogue output provide more information than digital devices and are therefore suitable for a far wider range of applications. In the Contrinex range, the output signal is not linearised allowing users to resolve the feedback positional data much more accurately.
They will suit applications that require precision and repeatability such as component sizing and recognition plus those that require smooth, end-of-travel control as is required in lifts, transfer systems and cranes. They are also sufficiently accurate to measure vital run-out, concentricity and vibration checks in production equipment machinery that normally require expensive transducers.
All sensors in the Contrinex C8 range are quasi-embeddable and have short circuit protection and inverse polarity protection plus excellent temperature range compensation.
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