DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The new generation of CA18CB…IO and CA30CB..IO sensors is a complete family of high perfor-mance capacitive sensors for detection of most solid or liquid targets in industrial applications such as Plastic & Rubber, Agriculture, Food & Beverage and Materials handling. The sensor housing has the IP69K rating as well as approval by ECOLAB for cleaning and disinfection agents. The sensor has a LED bar graph that visualizes the signal stability and makes adjustment easy. The 4th Generation of TRIPLESHIELD™ technology provides increased immunity to electromagnetic interference (EMI), especially to frequency drives, and improves immunity to humidity and dust. The on-board IO-Link communication opens up a variety of functions, such as easy communication and customization of advanced parameter settings.
Are available in two different housing sizes.
• CA18CB.. PBT M18-cylindrical threaded barrel housing for flush or non-flush installation with 4-pole M12 connector or 2 metre PVC cable.
• CA30CB.. PBT M30-cylindrical threaded barrel housing for flush or non-flush installation with 4-pole M12 connector or 2 metre PVC cable.
They can operate in standard I/O mode (SIO), which is the default operation mode. When connected to an IO-Link master, they automatically switch to IO-Link mode and can be operated and easily configured remotely.
Thanks to their IO-Link interface, these devices are much more intelligent and feature many additional configuration options, such as the settable sensing distance and hysteresis, also timer functions of the output. Advanced functionalities such as the Logic function block and the possibility to convert one output into an external input makes the sensor highly flexible in solving decentralized sensing tasks.

Some of adjustable parameters via IO-Link interface:
- Sensing distance and hysteresis
- Sensing modes: single point or two-point or window mode
- Timer functions like: On-delay, Off delay, One shot leading edge or trailing edge
- Logic functions such as: AND, OR, X-OR and SR-FF
- Output that can be operated either as a switching output or in IO-Link mode
- Fully configurable external input (NO or NC) and outputs as PNP / NPN / Push-Pull or analogue output (in IO-Link mode the sensor will generate 16 bit analogue process data output representing the dielectric value measured by the sensor)
- Logging functions: Maximum temperatures, minimum temperatures, operating hours, operating cycles, power cycles, minutes above maximum temperature, minutes below minimum temperature, etc.

Note:
The details are so many that we have no space to refer for all (500,000 different combinations of configuration)
However, let mention in one or two details that might surprise you:
- The IO-Link capacitive sensors detect not only the level of plastic pellets in plastic molding machines but also the dielectric value of the pellets to avoid false manufacturing.
- And can detect not only wood pellets in pellet burners but also the density of wood pellets.
For many other details, please refer to technical datasheet, to smart configurator manual and finally to amazing Tutorial.

SCTL55

The SCTL55 is the Industry 4.0 portable, self-powered and user-friendly smart configurator for IO-Link sensors, which accesses the sensor data and manages its parameters.
With the SCTL55 smart configurator you can modify and optimize your sensor very quickly and use available data to improve your processes and predictive maintenance.
Through a 5.5” HD touchscreen display and dedicated Apps you can access advanced diagnostics, showing operating hours, number of detections, operating cycles and alarms.