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Photo Transistor Light Sensor Reviews

4.6 Rating 14 Reviews
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“Great little photo transistor! I'm not sure the comments about it being "slow" or unresponsive - I've had great results with it. I'm using it with a Teensy to control LCD brightness, and it is very fast. I also buffer it with a capacitor to filter out extraneous noise.”
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Posted 6 months ago
Thomas M
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“I have spent a week working with this and still does not register anything. Tried it with resistor and capacitor and not a peep.”
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Posted 7 months ago
Huw T
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“Quality little components!”
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Posted 1 year ago
“The transistor is a bit slow, but it is still good for what I need. Delivery was very quick. All good.”
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Posted 1 year ago
“Great little light sensor, easy to solder on a circuit board and it also fits in a 5mm LED holder, used this sensor to control a project so it only works during the day, very happy with it.”
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Posted 1 year ago
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Posted 2 years ago
“Just ordered the wrong part…”
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Posted 2 years ago
“Not as sensitive as I would have liked - it's OK for wide changes (eg hand over the sensor or day and night) but for gradual changes over time it is not consistent in its changes. Even with 20 sec between readings I've noticed spikes in values that changing the resistor in the devidor pair does not help with - even tried analogue ground on a Pico but no change. I'm happy to use for crude changes and will continue hunting for finer reporting :-)”
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Posted 2 years ago