Inductive sensor

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selfbg

Joined Jun 11, 2010
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Im building something that looks like rev counter. This is the first time im using inductive sensor. The signal from the sensor is passed to Schmitt trigger. The problem is what king of protection to use? Im thinking about 2 clipping diodes to cut the sine to 0 and 5 volts. The problem is that in practice the low voltage is -0,7 which is bad for the CMOS IC (I thing so??). Is there any way to limit the sine to 0-1 and 4-5 volts? (I want to avoid using battery, this is the only method that i know).

Thank in advance :)
 

Bernard

Joined Aug 7, 2008
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Most of the CMOS ICs have clamps to gnd. and Vcc.like 74C14. For protection might add a 1 k Ω in series with input to limit clamp current to no more than 20 mA, give or take. -.7V should be no problem.
 

hgmjr

Joined Jan 28, 2005
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Im building something that looks like rev counter. This is the first time im using inductive sensor. The signal from the sensor is passed to Schmitt trigger. The problem is what king of protection to use? Im thinking about 2 clipping diodes to cut the sine to 0 and 5 volts. The problem is that in practice the low voltage is -0,7 which is bad for the CMOS IC (I thing so??). Is there any way to limit the sine to 0-1 and 4-5 volts? (I want to avoid using battery, this is the only method that i know).

Thank in advance :)
Can you post your schematic here so that we can see what you have at this point?

hgmjr
 
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