Decrease line voltage by clamping

What is the output impedance of the sensor? Is it constant and stable regardless of the sensor reading? Trying to drag down a low impedance output that isn't designed for it is a bad engineering practice.

What is this mystery sensor? Is there some reason you must conceal its identity from us? Not fully explicating the problem will definitely impact the quality of the answers you get.

Also, this forum is for Arduino questions. Where is the Arduino in this circuit?