{"id":17104,"date":"2023-04-10T10:29:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T17:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/?p=17104"},"modified":"2024-04-22T13:07:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T20:07:18","slug":"how-do-i-attach-a-photogate-to-a-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/17104","title":{"rendered":"How do I attach a photogate to a track?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"\/product\/dynamics-cart-and-track-system\/\">Dynamics Cart and Track System<\/a> (<nobr>DTS<\/nobr>) comes with a <a href=\"\/product\/photogate-bracket\/\">Photogate Bracket<\/a> (<nobr>PGB-VDS<\/nobr>) to connect a <a href=\"\/product\/photogate\/\">Photogate<\/a> (<nobr>VPG-BTD<\/nobr>) or <a href=\"\/product\/go-direct-photogate\/\">Go Direct<sup>&reg;<\/sup> Photogate<\/a> (<nobr>GDX-VPG<\/nobr>) to the track. This rectangular plastic bracket connects to the track&#8217;s side channel and allows you to adjust the height of the photogate above the track. <\/p>\n<p> The following video shows how to use the Photogate Bracket to connect a Photogate to the track.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/Photogate-Bracket-Installation.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<p>Note: You will want to adjust the height of the photogate so that the photogate beam is cleanly blocked\/unblocked by the &#8220;flag&#8221; on the cart.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED TILs<br \/><a href=\"\/til\/2103\/\">Cart and Track System Troubleshooting and FAQs<\/a><br \/><a href=\"\/til\/1565\/\">Will Vernier photogate brackets work with Pasco tracks?<\/a><br \/><a href=\"\/til\/2076\/\">How do I attach a Photogate and Ultra Pulley to the end of a Vernier Track?<\/a><br \/><a href=\"\/til\/2313\/\">How do I measure motion with a photogate using the Vernier Cart Picket Fence?<\/a><br \/><a href=\"\/til\/2936\/\">Why does the Cart Picket Fence edge get detected by a photogate?<\/a><br \/><a href=\"\/til\/1422\/\">Vernier Photogate (VPG-BTD) Troubleshooting and FAQs<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comes with a to connect a or to the track. This rectangular plastic bracket connects to the track&#8217;s side channel and allows you to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100811,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4007,3786,1855,2135,1281],"class_list":["post-17104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-dts","tag-gdx-vpg","tag-pf-cart","tag-pgb-vds","tag-vpg-btd"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100811"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}