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08/03/09 16:29
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 		 #168111 - Confusing...
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Anurag said:
Connect RED to +5 volts, Black to ground, and Brown gets connected to a LED ( other end of LED goes to ground). Optionally, you may want to add a resistor with LED especially if supply exceeds 5 V.

Product info http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/...ts_id=8630 says, that brown wire is ground and black wire is open collector alarm output. Datasheet, on the other hand, tells that it is just vice versa!

And what you tell about the LED is also confusing. If you connect a LED to an open collector output, you cannot hook the other end to ground! An open collector output can only sink current but not source.

Connecting a LED to the open collector output (if this thingy can drive a LED at all) makes only sense if you connect the cathode of LED to the open collector output and the anode of LED via a suited current limiting resistor to the supply voltage.

Kai

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PIR Sensor Does not work            01/01/70 00:00      
   Open-collector alarm output            01/01/70 00:00      
      Yes I know            01/01/70 00:00      
         How do you know it doesn't work?            01/01/70 00:00      
            IT DOES NOT TURN OFF THE LED            01/01/70 00:00      
               Forgot about the "modify" timestamp?            01/01/70 00:00      
                  You are really sick            01/01/70 00:00      
                     intuition problematic for technical discussion            01/01/70 00:00      
                  That's always the trouble with allowing editing!            01/01/70 00:00      
                     Editing is not the problem...            01/01/70 00:00      
                     Isn't this ?            01/01/70 00:00      
         Sensitive pir, expected behaviour or sw error?            01/01/70 00:00      
         Use a transition-activated external interrupt            01/01/70 00:00      
            Look            01/01/70 00:00      
               maybe            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Generation gap ?            01/01/70 00:00      
                     Threshold            01/01/70 00:00      
                        Menus ?            01/01/70 00:00      
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                              Not just cheap            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 menus            01/01/70 00:00      
                                    Not easy if you don't understand the terminology            01/01/70 00:00      
                                       Lessons            01/01/70 00:00      
                                          Own curiosity is the most important factor            01/01/70 00:00      
                                             True words.            01/01/70 00:00      
                           Lots of fine print            01/01/70 00:00      
                              back to the topic            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 Similar to how you let an 8051 output sink to ground            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 What is the purpose of your scheme?            01/01/70 00:00      
                              age            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 It's all a matter of what you're accustomed to using            01/01/70 00:00      
                                    USB control box much wanted            01/01/70 00:00      
   from ready made            01/01/70 00:00      
   I have used it ones            01/01/70 00:00      
      Confusing...            01/01/70 00:00      
         I am sure            01/01/70 00:00      
            inside PIR            01/01/70 00:00      
   you need a frnsel lens            01/01/70 00:00      
      Sherif Gamal            01/01/70 00:00      

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