Why do the newer Faraday mechanical horns have circuit boards on them?
If you can post a picture of it that would help… It could just be a voltage regulator or the voltage amplification unit if it has a strobe, or it could be the jubracator that connects the flux capacitor to the dalore-o-tron.
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That’s probably what it is.
I remember reading about this awhile ago. These newer horns don’t have mechanical contacts. Instead I believe they use an LED and optical sensor with something attached to the horn’s diaphragm to interrupt a beam of light. According to the horn’s data sheet, it’s U.S. Patent #5,596,477.
Here’s a link to the patent:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5596477.PN.&OS=PN/5596477&RS=PN/5596477
Thanks!
The infrared light reminds me of a beam detector.
I don’t think the LED design was ever implemented as I’ve never seen an electromechanical horn with that technology. Pretty interesting idea though.
Seems a bit over engineered to me, its sorta like leveling a elevator with lasers, I mean, who needs it to be THAT specific.
Sounds useful for explosion proof environments.