Hall Effect Gear Tooth Sensor

[Grant Beattie]

On Wed, 4 Jan 1995, Jim Pieronek wrote:

> Can anyone give me a source for a Hall Effect Sensor for detecting the
> teeth on a ring gear?  Any advice or experience on mounting and using
> such a sensor would be appreciated also.

I'm no expert on this, but ELECTRO has a whole pile of things called VRS 
sensors, digital sensors and proximity sensors that are used for 
producing either square pulses or sine waves in response to gear teeth 
wizzing by.  Their catalog seems quite complete and has applications 
info too. 

Electro Corp.
1845 - 57th Street
Sarasota, FL
34243

voice: 813-355-8411
fax:   813-355-3120


Grant Beattie