{"id":3943,"date":"2017-05-09T00:14:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T07:14:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"3943","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/3943","title":{"rendered":"When I hold the tip of the Go Direct 3-Axis Magnetic Field sensor next to the pole of a magnet, the sensor reads zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article refers to the <a href=\"\/product\/go-direct-3-axis-magnetic-field-sensor\/\">Go Direct<sup>&reg;<\/sup> 3-Axis Magnetic Field Sensor<\/a> (<nobr>GDX-3MG<\/nobr>)<br \/>\nFor information about the <a href=\"\/product\/magnetic-field-sensor\/\">Magnetic Field Sensor<\/a> (<nobr>MG-BTA<\/nobr>), see <a href=\"\/til\/1420\/\">Magnetic Field Sensor Troubleshooting and FAQs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Go Direct 3-Axis Magnetic Field Sensor has two ranges. The high-precision range is \u00b15 mT and the low-precision range is \u00b1130 mT. When the magnetic field exceeds \u00b15 mT at the sensor tip, the low-precision sensor detects the larger field and pegs the high-precision sensor reading at 5 mT. However, if there is a problem with the low-precision sensor, the reading may not peg at 5 mT even in a very large magnetic field, such as those produced by powerful rare earth or neodymium magnets. Instead, the reading may decrease to zero as the magnetic field increases. If this occurs, contact Vernier technical support for assistance.<\/p>\n<p>If the sensor is exposed to a magnetic field greater than \u00b1130 mT at the sensor tip, the low-precision sensor will read a high value and stay there.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article refers to the For information about the , see The Go Direct 3-Axis Magnetic Field Sensor has two ranges. The high-precision range is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6621,6622,6597,851],"class_list":["post-3943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bad","tag-gdx-3mg","tag-zero"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943","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\/43901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}