3mm LDR Light Dependent Resistor Photoresistor Light Sensor 5-200K With Ceramic Pacakge

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General

CdS photoconductive cells 3mm LDR Light Dependent Resistor Photoresistor Light Sensor utilize photoconductive effects in semiconductors that decrease their resistance when illuminated by light. These sensors are non-polar resistive elements with spectral response characteristics close to the human eye (luminous efficiency), thus making their operating circuits simple and small.

Application Filed

There are many applications for Light Dependent Resistors. These include:

Lighting switch

The most obvious application for an LDR is to automatically turn on a light at certain light level. An example of this could be a street light.

Camera shutter control

LDRs can be used to control the shutter speed on a camera. The LDR would be used the measure the light intensity and the set the camera shutter speed to the appropriate level.

Example

The circuit shown right shows a simple way of constructing a circuit that turns on when it goes dark. The increase in resistance of the LDR in relation to the other resistor which is fixed as the light intensity drops will cause the transistor to turn on. The value of the fixed resistor will depend on the LDR used, the transistor used and the supply voltage.

Features

Epoxy resin encapsulation
Small size
Quick response
Good reliability
High sensitivity
Good spectrum characteristic

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How an LDR works

An LDR is a component that has a resistance that changes with the light intensity that falls upon it. They have a resistance that falls with an increase in the light intensity falling upon the device.The resistance of an LDR may typically have the following resistances.

Daylight =5000Ω
Dark =20,000,000Ω

You can therefore see that there is a large variation between these figures. If you plotted this variation on a graph you would get something similar to that shown by the graph to the right.