Help me identify this component from a Polulu IR Sensor

[fkeel]

http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/2454

Does anyone know where I can find the sensor/emitter that Polulu uses for their line sensor? I would like to design my own breakout board, but dont know where and how to search for the part.

If anyone has any suggestions, I'd appreceate to hear them.

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Also if you know any components of similar size, which emit/detect IR, I would like to hear about them.

Thanks

P.

[Chagrin]

It's a photoreflector / reflective optical sensor. It's nothing more than a phototransistor and infrared LED packed into one package at 10x the cost.

http://www.mouser.com/Optoelectronics/Optical-Switches/Optical-Switches-Reflective-Phototransistor-Output/_/N-abusl/

Newark/Farnell seem to categorize theirs under "optocouplers". Which doesn't really make sense.

[fkeel]

hm yes.

But specifically I am looking for something ultra-low profile at a right angle. The polulu part is the best match I have found so far. Any suggestion on what it is specifically that they are using?

(I have asked, but gotten no reply out of them.)

[Chagrin]

http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Everlight/ITR-8307-TR8/?qs=sGAEpiMZZMvDlz5Naxv8kOEKzABXu%252b%2fBWqEts1ePv%252bg%3d

[fkeel]

@chagrin (and every one else...)

I have worked a lot with the sensor you just linked to. Its a really nifty and versatile part. I am however specifically looking for this part:



Note the right angle & low profile. Also its not two components fused together in one IC. I suspect that it is the same component used for both the emitter and receiver.

And, well, I still don't know anything more about it since I first started searching. I'm considering ordering some of the pololu boards and simply desoldering them for testing purpose, but for my final application I will need ~ 100 pieces, so that's not an option anymore.

[fkeel]

http://www.fairchildsemi.com/ds/QT/QTLP610CPD.pdf
and
http://www.everlight.com/datasheets/IR12_21C_TR8_datasheet.pdf

might work.