24-03-2017, 16:01
Hoping to start assembly of my station shortly, and I had a flyer mail in from one of my suppliers this week, and an item on it caught my attention. IF I am reading the information correctly, it is a contactless sensor, with unrestricted rotation capability, and a good resolution, which I think would be suitable for use in the wind direction sensor. It's not cheap, but given that it will be outdoors and not readily accessible due to being at the top of a long pole, I want to use something with better resolution and reliability than that of the Fine Offset unit
Can anyone comment if a AMS22B5A1BHASL136N-ND sensor, available from (among others ) digikey, would be suitable for the purpose? My plan would be to modify a Fine Offset wind direction sensor to remove the existing internal works, and replace it with the Bourns unit, with appropriate modifications to deal with the requirement for a third wire for the connections.
A link to the datasheet is here
Thanks
Steve
Can anyone comment if a AMS22B5A1BHASL136N-ND sensor, available from (among others ) digikey, would be suitable for the purpose? My plan would be to modify a Fine Offset wind direction sensor to remove the existing internal works, and replace it with the Bourns unit, with appropriate modifications to deal with the requirement for a third wire for the connections.
A link to the datasheet is here
Thanks
Steve