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Capacitive Sensor

A capacitive sensor can detect solid or liquid targets without physical contact by emitting an electrical field. It has four main parts: the sensor body, sensing face, indicator light, and cable connection. The sensing range is the maximum distance a target can be detected.

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Capacitive Sensor

A capacitive sensor can detect solid or liquid targets without physical contact by emitting an electrical field. It has four main parts: the sensor body, sensing face, indicator light, and cable connection. The sensing range is the maximum distance a target can be detected.

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What is a capacitive sensor?

A capacitive sensor is an electronic device that can detect solid or


liquid targets without physical contact. To detect these targets,
capacitive sensors emit an electrical field from the sensing end of the
sensor. Any target that can disrupt this electrical field can be detected
by a capacitive sensor.

Types of materials capacitive sensors can


detect
Some examples of the solid materials a capacitive sensor can detect
are all types of metal, all types of plastic, wood, paper, glass, and
cloth. Capacitive sensors can also detect liquids like water, oil, and
paint. Some capacitive sensors can be used to detect material inside
a nonmetallic container. The capacitive sensors used to do this have
an adjustable sensing range

Capacitive sensor main parts


Capacitive sensors have four main parts, the sensor’s body, the
sensing face, the indicator light, and the cable or cable connection
end.

Adjustment screw
If the sensor has an adjustable sensing range, it will also have an
adjustment screw to adjust the sensing range.
1) Sensor’s body
Inside the sensor’s body is where the circuitry is that makes the
sensor work.

2) Sensing face
The sensing face is the part of the sensor that is used to detect the
targets.

3) Indicator light
The indicator light is on the other end of the sensor from the sensing
face. This light turns on when a target is within the sensors sensing
range and turns off when the target is out of sensing range.
Sensing range
The sensing range of a capacitive sensor is the max distance a target
can be detected from the sensor sensing face. An example of being
within the sensors sensing range would be if the target is six
millimeters away from the sensing face and the sensors sensing range
is twelve millimeters.

Advantages of Capacitive sensor


Following are the advantages of Capacitive sensor:
➨It can be used to detect non-metallic targets.
➨It can detect through containers of certain types also.
➨It is simple in construction and adjustable.
➨It can detect dense targets and liquids.
➨It is lower in cost.
➨It has higher sensitivity and can be operational with small magnitude of force.
➨It can be used for the measurement of force, pressure and humidity etc.
➨It has very good resolution (as low as 0.003 mm) and frequency response.
Disadvantages of Capacitive sensor
Following are the disadvantages of Capacitive sensor:
➨It is very much sensitive to changes in environmental conditions such as
temperature, humidity etc. This will affect the performance.
➨The measurement of capacitance is hard compare to measurement of
resistance.
➨Capacitive proximity sensor are not so accurate compare to inductive sensor
type.

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