• Shiva Electronics

Fork Sensors

The various types of fork sensors (slot sensors) from Shiva Electronics work on infrared (IR) principle. A typical unit consists of IR-emitter, IR-receiver and built-in circuitry with pre-wired 2-metre (as standard length) cable. The company offers these sensors with slot width of 3/20/50 mm, enclosed in ABS plastic housing or in aluminium casing. These sensors work on 10 to 24 V DC. Transistor output NPN or PNP is with driving capacity of 200 mA and is protected for short-circuit, overload and inductive load. NO and NC are user selectable. Important feature of this sensor is NO and NC operation is available in each unit for user selection – so there is no need to stock NO and NC sensors separately. These microprocessor-based sensors are precise, reliable and operate at frequency of 10 kHz. The 3 mm slot width sensor (suitable for automatic labelling machines) is available either with trim pot facility or teach button facility. This sensor is specially designed to sense the position of label (sticker