New fibre optic amplifiers with digital display
When setting-up fibre optic amplifiers you need to be completely familiar with the various steps and features of the product; otherwise you must first read the detailed instruction booklet. In shop-floor applications this can be time consuming, inconvenient and often an issue if the information is not readily available. Imagine a fibre optic sensor amplifier that helps you by scrolling the instructions for setting on its own screen? Contrinex now offers an 8-digit, 14-segment liquid crystal display fibre optic amplifier which does just that. All you have to then do is follow the steps to teach and commission the sensor.
Available in a small DIN-rail mountable housing of only 30mm x 60mm x 10mm, these slim new devices permit optimum stacking, even in large numbers, especially in systems where space is limited.
The long sensing distance with diffuse fibres can be set manually or by a remote IO-Link teach-in facility with additional fine adjustment over a sensing range of 20 to 200mm. The Contrinex amplifier can be adjusted in 1mm steps to precisely set the operating distance. The signal strength and threshold are digitally indicated on the LCD when adjusting.
Depending on the background, the detection of some products, can be hard to set-up correctly. These new digital amplifiers have a two stage static teach function which distinguishes the target from the surroundings and ensures the correct adjustment for reliable detection. In addition, there is a smart dynamic teach function that lets you pass the target in front of the fibre tip a few times before it automatically calculates the average differential to ensure target detection.
The new amplifiers also have a high switching frequency of 4kHz which will help customers to capture tiny or high speed targets. The Contrinex amplifiers also feature adjustable output switching delay, pulse stretching, both up to 500ms plus Dark On or Light On selectable output mode .
The sensors are protected against overloads, short circuits and all wiring reversals, spikes and electrostatic discharges. The tough compact PBTP (Crastin) housing, has mounting holes as well DIN facility, features a clip on display screen guard and is sealed to IP64.
