Title: KEYENCE CA-DC21E High-Intensity LED Light Controller for Machine Vision

Product Overview:
Elevate your machine vision and industrial inspection capabilities with the KEYENCE CA-DC21E High-Intensity LED Light Controller. Engineered for precision and reliability, the CA-DC21E provides stable, powerful illumination for demanding applications. This advanced digital controller is specifically designed to maximize the performance of KEYENCE CA-DR series LED lights, offering unparalleled brightness, precise intensity control, and flexible lighting modes. Its compact design and robust features make it an essential component for achieving superior image quality and consistent results in automated inspection systems, ensuring accurate defect detection, precise measurement, and reliable presence/absence verification across various industries.

Key Features & Benefits:

Unmatched High-Intensity Output: Delivers powerful illumination, crucial for high-speed imaging and challenging inspection environments, ensuring clear and detailed image capture.
Precise Digital Intensity Control: Offers fine-tuned digital adjustment of light intensity (0-255 levels), allowing for optimal illumination settings to enhance contrast and highlight specific features on diverse surfaces.
Flexible Strobe and Continuous Lighting Modes: Supports both continuous illumination for general viewing and high-intensity strobe lighting for freezing motion and reducing blur in high-speed applications.
Overdrive Functionality: Utilizes an advanced overdrive mode to momentarily boost LED brightness beyond continuous limits during strobe operation, significantly improving signal-to-noise ratio and image clarity.
Seamless Compatibility: Optimized for perfect integration with KEYENCE CA-DR series LED lights, guaranteeing peak performance, extended lifespan, and optimal light output from your lighting components.
Enhanced Image Quality and Reliability: Provides stable and consistent lighting, minimizing variations that can affect image processing, leading to more reliable inspection results and reduced false positives.
Compact and Space-Saving Design: Its small footprint allows for easy installation in confined spaces, making it ideal for integration into existing machine vision setups and automation lines without requiring extensive modifications.
User-Friendly Setup and Operation: Features intuitive controls and connectivity options for quick configuration and seamless integration into your control system, reducing setup time and complexity.
Extended LED Lifespan: Precise current control and integrated thermal management features help to protect connected LED lights, extending their operational life and reducing long-term maintenance costs.
Robust Industrial Construction: Built to withstand harsh industrial environments, ensuring long-term durability, consistent performance, and reliable operation in demanding factory settings.

Applications:

The KEYENCE CA-DC21E is an indispensable tool across a wide range of industrial applications requiring precise and powerful illumination for automated inspection and quality control:
High-Speed Machine Vision Systems: Essential for capturing clear, blur-free images of fast-moving objects in high-throughput production lines.
Automated Industrial Inspection: Ideal for critical tasks such as defect detection, surface inspection, presence/absence checks, and assembly verification in manufacturing processes.
Quality Control and Assurance: Ensures consistent product quality by providing stable and repeatable lighting for critical inspection points throughout the production cycle.
Robotics and Automation: Integrates seamlessly into robotic cells for precise pick-and-place operations, robotic guidance, and in-line inspection tasks.
Semiconductor Manufacturing: Provides precise and uniform illumination for wafer inspection, die bonding, and detailed component verification.
Automotive Industry: Used extensively for inspecting parts, sub-assemblies, and paint finishes for defects, ensuring high standards of quality.
Food and Beverage Processing: Enables accurate inspection of packaging, fill levels, product integrity, and foreign object detection.
Pharmaceutical Inspection: Critical for verifying drug packaging, tablet inspection, label accuracy, and ensuring product safety and compliance.
Electronics Manufacturing: Supports detailed inspection of Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), solder joints, and various electronic components for quality and integrity.

Technical Specifications:

Model: CA-DC21E
Part Number (with special characters): CA-DC21E
Part Number (without special characters): CA DC21E
Input Voltage: 24 VDC ±10%
Output Channels: 1 channel
Output Control: Digital intensity control (0-255 levels)
Lighting Modes: Continuous, Strobe (Pulsed), Overdrive Strobe
Maximum Output Current (Continuous): Up to 2.0 A (varies by connected light)
Maximum Output Current (Strobe/Overdrive): Up to 10.0 A (for short durations, depending on connected light)
External Control: Trigger input, RS-232C communication (for advanced control and parameter adjustment)
Indicators: Power, Output Status, Error
Protection Features: Overcurrent protection, Overheat protection, Short-circuit protection
Mounting: DIN rail mountable for easy integration into control cabinets
Operating Temperature: 0 to +50 °C (32 to 122 °F)
Storage Temperature: -20 to +70 °C (-4 to 158 °F)
Relative Humidity: 35 to 85 % RH (No condensation)
Dimensions (W x H x D): Approximately 30 mm x 90 mm x 70 mm (1.18" x 3.54" x 2.76")
Weight: Approximately 170 g (0.37 lbs)
Compliance: CE, RoHS