Infrared Emitters and Detectors

Description

Side-looking Infrared Emitters and IR Detectors. These simple devices operate at 940nm and work well for generic IR systems including remote control and touch-less object sensing. Using a simple ADC on any microcontroller will allow variable readings to be collected from the detector. The emitter is driven up to 50mA with a current limiting resistor as with any LED device. The detect is a NPN transistor that is biased by incoming IR light.

Datasheets:

IR Emitter (Yellow dot)
IR Detector (Red dot)

Applications:

IR Schematic – Basic object detection schematic
Robot Room – Excellent website with lots of goodies
Video Tutorial

Sold as a pair, with one Emitter and one Detector.