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    March 20

    LEESON Reversing Motors

    LEESON Reversing Motors are specially designed motors for use on "instant-reversing" parking gates, doors, slide gates, or other moderate starting torque instant reversing applications. Capable of frequent reversing service.

    • Instant "plug-reversing" with simple three-wire connection.
    • Permanent split capacitor design offering low inrush and full load amps.
    • Manual reset overload protector. Starting torque approximately 150% of full load, not suitable for hard to start loads.
    • Capacitor start, induction run motors with solid state, instant reversing switch.
    • Manual reset overload protector.

    March 01

    Proximity and photoelectric benefits combine

    New from Balluff, the Optoprox has a rugged construction that lets it go where most photoelectrics fear to tread. Its reliable fixed sensing distance is suitable for a wide variety of target materials, exact background suppression, and small sensing hysteresis. With its powerful red light, it's easy to precisely align an Optoprox to target very small objects and to sense difficult to detect black plastic, metal, and rubber parts.

    Balluff's Optoprox combines the best features of a proximity and photoelectric sensor.

    It is a photoelectric sensor that offers the simplicity of mounting, aligning, and handling of an inductive proximity sensor, but without the range limitations.

    The Optoprox has a focused red light beam with a fixed sensing range up to 23mm, complete with background suppression.

    Applications include presence sensing, positioning, controlling, and monitoring of discrete and process automation sequences.