Using 1 Proximity Sensor to Supply 2 Loads

Apr 19, 2007 2 Replies

I currently have a piece of equipment that uses 2 NPN proximity sensors. Both sensors monitor the same toothed pulley on a machine are used as inputs to independant counting circuits.



I would like to modify the set up, so that only 1 sensor is used. The resulting system will look something like the diagram below. Is there anything commercially available (perhaps from RS Components) that I can use to provide the 2 isolated outputs for loads A & B, from a single input fom an NPN sensor ?



TIA, woodglass


_____________ _________ _________ ! NPN ! ! Signal ! ! ! ! Sensor !--------! Isolator !--------! Load A ! !____________! !__________! !_________ ! ! ! ! ! _________ ! ____________! ! ! Load B ! ! _________!



One technique is to daisy-chain the inputs of two opto-isolators.

It does create the risk of a single point of failure - possibly not too great a problem if the loads are only counters (and it isn't counting money ;) )

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