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Re: How should we wire the photoswitchs?

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Originally Posted by Tem1514 Mentor View Post
The sensor will work just fine on 12 volts DC which generally means at the output (ie: LO,DO ) MAY have a voltage range from 0VDC to 12VDC. The Digital sidecar does have a 'general purpose' I/O lines which opearte in the 0VDC to 5VDC range!!!!!
The sensor outputs do not source anything. They will never have a voltage greater than what they are connected to. If you connect LO or DO to the Digital Sidecar, it will either have 5 volts (when inactive) or zero volts (when active) on the output.

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I have not looked at the sensors tech sheets yet but will sure err on the side of caution.
If you haven't looked at the documentation, you shouldn't be giving advice about how to use things.

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Of course one way to find out is to look at the 'sample code' and see where the information for the sensors is read.
It reads it from the Digital Sidecar DIO pins.