They work by having an emitter side that sends out a beam of human invisible ir light then a receiver across the way which is sensitive to that same light.
Ir beam break detector circuit.
Schematic of ir beam breaker circuit.
Arduino has an led connected on pin 13 pin 11.
This is an ir beam breaking alarm ideal to use in entry or passages.
Application an infrared detector that sounds a buzzer when an ir beam is broken meaning the ir signal.
The circuit the transmitter.
Define ledpin 13 pin 13.
Teensy 2 0 has the led on pin 11 pin 6.
Because people keep asking me for a long range ir beam break detector i made this circuit which has a range of nearly 10 meters 33 feet with only a single high power led using no lenses.
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Invisible infrared alarm circuit d mohankumar 12 01 2010.
Here is how the transmitter works.
It is based on the working of the popular ir sensor module tsop1738 which senses 38 khz infrared pulses from the ir led of the transmitter.
The answer was too long for the comments section so i ve extended into a blog post.
Teensy 3 0 has the led on pin 13 define sensorpin 4 variables will change.
Teensy 2 0 has the led on pin 6 pin 13.
Ir breakbeam sensor demo.
Ir beam breaker circuit d mohankumar 08 28 2010.
Int sensorstate 0 laststate 0.
One reader asked how to use my arduino infrared library to detect breakage of an ir beam.
Range of the circuit is about 5 meters if the transmitter and receiver are properly aligned.
One straightforward way is to use the library to modulate an ir led at 38khz and use a standard ir detector module to detect the signal.
Variable for reading the pushbutton status void setup initialize the led.
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