Yes, and that too
you buy industry quality sensors USED from EBAY???
and what does it weigh?
Approx 9g, but If you'd like I'm in the plant today I can get one out and weigh it for you.
Personal point of view and a business standpoint I have stood by for years is that if a customer doesn't know what they want and I'm just spitballing until they come to a conclusion I will buy any functioning piece of tech from anywhere that it is feasible. I am an equal opportunity "give it a chance" kind of person. Now if I need 400 of them to do a system install. No probably not the. I'm gonna use the local supply house which I checked this am has them for 53$ each .
Hi,
M8NN16 is not a valid AB number.
Look out for what you get.
The image shows.
M8NN18
Which is a valid number.
Tom... 
Good catch
Also would appear my 5 second google shopping result didn't capture the entirety of the part number either .
However if we are going to refer to this as the new way of doing things I guess we are taking into consideration IO-LINK technologies (which parker and SMC both have their own derivatives) then the idea would be that the only valid option is to move away from discrete inputs slap a microcontroller on the back of each input and then have a huge distributed network of "smart" sensors.
To which I do agree not feasible for all applications and unnecessarily complex, but if you cut right back to the quick of it ... The input from that sensor is still being conditioned by passive components that are then feeding the resultant information to the processor in the sensor and then broadcasting that information over a proprietary comms link.
Therefore my original opinion is still a valid . Even with the deemed "new way" your still using the same 5 components (resistor, capacitor, diode, transistor and optocoupler) to come up with any useful signal conditioning into the microprocessor.
On a side note the plant I work in ( Forbes top 100, many global brands ) still doesn't use Io link for much, we have Io link hardware but it's just putting out on the npn pnp outputs . Even brand new equipment we have from last year and the year before don't have io-link enabled . So perhaps in my sector market permeation is limited . Most of the stuff that could be io-link is just plumbed into a remote Io stack and then Ethernet does the hard part . We have a super annoying system of conveyors that runs for over a quarter mile all interleaved has a murr-block every hundred foot where input is needed, all of those report back to the same place as the robot control and if anyone sneezes near an e stop we are in for a wonderful day 
5 more posts and we can all be friends and go out for beers and really solve world problems.. cuz we will be at the 30 post threshold
I can't find a getting started cook book yet ... Lol . Found this pretty useful one if you wanted to overcomplicate it with an op amp..
TI opamp signal conditioning cookbook
[Encyclopedia of cool things to plug into an arduino](electrovolt.ir https://electrovolt.ir › 2015/02PDF Encyclopedia of Electronic Components, Volume 3)
That encyclopedia of electronic components does a bunch for answering the why. Which was a problem that was spoke on earlier .
Still doesn't give a perview outside of basic resistor divide circuits.
THIS one isn't beginner level but may have usefull info.
Another reason to post on this topic...
This topic was automatically closed 180 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.