IITC Life Science ANY-maze : Connecting external devices

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Connecting external devices

ANY-maze includes the ability to detect such things as micro-switch closures, photo-beam breaks and lever presses, and can control devices like lamps, shockers, pumps, buzzers, etc.

Input/Output devices

In order for ANY-maze to detect a photo-beam break, or turn a shocker on or off, the equipment obviously needs to be physically connected to your computer. These connections are made using what's called an input/output device and ANY-maze supports a number of them:

The Switch and Sense 8/8

A top quality USB based I/O device.
8 optically isolated inputs.
8 relay outputs which can directly switch loads up 6 amps at 120VAC.
Further details : Contact our sales staff

The K108 serial I/O module

A low cost device which connects to the computer's serial port.
4 optically isolated inputs
8 relay outputs which can directly switch loads up 10 amps at 250VAC.
Further details : Contact our sales staff

Your computer's printer port

ANY-maze can interface to devices via your computer's printer port - however, to achieve this you do need to understand a bit about electronics.
4 TTL level inputs
8 TTL level outputs
Further details : Contact ANY-maze tech support

Ports provided by a digitiser card

Some of the digitisers supported by ANY-maze include I/O ports.
The RTV-24 has 4 input and 4 output ports. An isolated I/O module is also available
Most devices in the Picolo series include I/O ports and an isolated I/O module is also available
Further details : Contact ANY-maze tech support