Hello All
I am new here and somewhat new into designing. I know super super basics and can usually fabricobble something together with enough tinkering. I was looking for advice on a circuit I am designing.
I created a circuit using an infrared distance sensor E3F-DS30C4 NPN NO. (labelled Sen). There is ground and power to it and the sensing wire goes to a BC516. This triggers a relay when the sensor hits a specified distance.
I am having a slight problem. I am using this sensor to detect when a dust bin is full. When I am using this and sucking up small particles it does fine but when I use this and suck up big particles and they pass in front of the sensor. it will flip the sensor on for a super short moment. I have feedback using a relay, when it's not full Green led is on (Gled) then when full Red Led (rled) flips on. This is not a huge problem but would like to fix it if possible.
I was trying to come up with a solution where if the sensor detects something is in front of it for more than lets say 1 second. This would mean it is full and not just a particle passing by.
I would call this a "normalization circuit" but I know that's not right terminology. I was trying to come up with ideas on how to solve it but I don't even know what to call this type of addition i would be adding which is making it hard to find existing solutions to see if I can implement it into mine.
My thoughts were to maybe have some sort of gate with capacitors where they have to charge up fully before the gate opens? I don't know, this is really me taking stabs in the dark. Any ideas would be helpful or points in the right direction for me to research. Thanks for the help in adv
I am new here and somewhat new into designing. I know super super basics and can usually fabricobble something together with enough tinkering. I was looking for advice on a circuit I am designing.
I created a circuit using an infrared distance sensor E3F-DS30C4 NPN NO. (labelled Sen). There is ground and power to it and the sensing wire goes to a BC516. This triggers a relay when the sensor hits a specified distance.
I am having a slight problem. I am using this sensor to detect when a dust bin is full. When I am using this and sucking up small particles it does fine but when I use this and suck up big particles and they pass in front of the sensor. it will flip the sensor on for a super short moment. I have feedback using a relay, when it's not full Green led is on (Gled) then when full Red Led (rled) flips on. This is not a huge problem but would like to fix it if possible.
I was trying to come up with a solution where if the sensor detects something is in front of it for more than lets say 1 second. This would mean it is full and not just a particle passing by.
I would call this a "normalization circuit" but I know that's not right terminology. I was trying to come up with ideas on how to solve it but I don't even know what to call this type of addition i would be adding which is making it hard to find existing solutions to see if I can implement it into mine.
My thoughts were to maybe have some sort of gate with capacitors where they have to charge up fully before the gate opens? I don't know, this is really me taking stabs in the dark. Any ideas would be helpful or points in the right direction for me to research. Thanks for the help in adv