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[Doppeldork]

Mike, on Feb 26 2005, 06:13 AM, said:

It is a very simple system... The wire has two male plugs on either end that plug into standard electricial type outlets (picture a short extension cord with two male plugs).  The wire and plugs are wired one for one and one the outlet just has a jumper connecting the two pins together.  The other outlet has VDC connected on one pin and the safetygate signal connected to the other pin.  When the wire is pluged into both outlets, it makes the circuit.  It is a very cheap setup that took care of a few problems we were having with the photo eye system (which we use on all other pomas).
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Those Poma photo cell safety gates present more problems then any other safety gate I know of. We've swapped all our Poma photo eyes out for the "string" system as well. Much more reliable system.

[Boeinglover]

Yeah, sure. Just wanted to be sarcastic about that. :)

This post has been edited by Boeinglover: 26 February 2005 - 08:21 PM

[highspeedquad]

What was so wrong with the photo eye sensor. Was it just that caught snow kept tripping it, or were there other problems?

I would agree that the string system is reliable, the only problem would be that some people would avoid it should they ride around the bullwheel.

This post has been edited by highspeedquad: 26 February 2005 - 08:38 PM