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In-line air pressure switch 2

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csmith13

csmith13

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Dec 1, 2006
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We have a machine that uses air-punches to place a feature onto a gear. The feature is unsatisfactorily developed if the air pressure in the lines isn't high enough, and I want to indicate this by faulting out the machine with an error and preventing further production is air pressure isn't high enough.


Is there anything I can install in line with the air line to sense this? We are maybe talking 115 PSI. The only solution I could find were these parker sensor, but I am unfamiliar with them.



Am I on the right track? Can anyone give me a hand?
 
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There's plenty of inexpensive pressure sensors with digital outputs out there on the market. I think I remember has one, among many more. You can plumb in a shunt circuit to know the pressure of your punch line. When pressure falls below a pre-determined setpoint, you get a signal.

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would`nt a simple pressure switch work... like on a air compressor. simple an inexpensive with a relay for control..
 
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I thought ifemfector? was the best pressure switch manufacturer. Always had a solution and their pressure switches were very versatile and very reliable and very simple to use.
 
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I have used a Festo switch like this, push lock fittings and I believe you can get a reed output or order it as PNP or NPN, with a pico fast QD, and it is programmable
 
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Plenty of airswitches on the market. I'd be looking at you sideways if you suggested to me that we wait for air pressure to build however. I want quality production and I want it now.
 
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