Basic Switches

The industry-defining name in snap-action precision switches. Compact and lightweight, Honeywell MICRO SWITCH^TM basic switches are designed for repeatability and enhanced product life and offer a wide variety of actuators and operating characteristics. Product family includes standard, miniature, and subminiature sized switches along with hermetically sealed and high temperature switches.

Hazardous Location switches

The industry standard for hazardous location applications. Available in a variety of styles, MICRO SWITCH^TM hazardous location switches feature UL, CSA, ATEX, and IEC Ex certifications. Offered with a variety of heads and non-sparking actuators, Honeywell’s hazardous location switch product line includes smaller sizes, lower-cost options, and analog outputs.

Key and Rotary Switches

Key switches and rotary switches often used on control panels or machinery in harsh environments.

Limit Switches

One of the broadest and deepest limit switch portfolios available. Honeywell MICRO SWITCH^TM limit switches are rugged, dependable position detection solutions. Honeywell offers an advanced line of heavy-duty limit switches and a wide selection of application-proven enclosed switches. Products meet or exceed critical standards allowing for global use.

Safety Switches

Specialty or proprietary products and accessories related to Honeywell Sensing and Control machine safety switches and sensors. Includes levers, keys, kits, lenses, rods, covers, and more.

Sealed Switches

Honeywell MICRO SWITCH^TM Sealed Switches are precision ‘snap action’ mechanisms enclosed within a housing that provides environmental, moisture, and corrosion protection of the switch contacts. For application flexibility, customization is available for a wide variety of actuators, terminations, circuitry configurations, electrical ratings, contract materials, and operating characteristics. These Sealed Switches meet military performance standard and most global approvals, making them suitable for variety of applications and many years of service.

Pushbutton Switches

Lighted or unlighted, Honeywell MICRO SWITCH^TM pushbutton and manual switches match the task to the switch. Accommodating a wide range of electrical and display design, pushbuttons and manuals switches are designed in many shapes, sizes, and configurations to enhance manual operation with a flexible and attractive interface. Snap-in surface products are easy to apply, operate, and maintain.

Rocker Switches

Designed to achieve a balance between appearance and ergonomics, MICRO SWITCH^TM rocker switches accommodate a wide range of electrical and display design. Available in many shapes, sizes, and configurations to enhance manual operation with a flexible and attractive interface. Military-grade and environmentally sealed options are available.

Toggle Switches

Designed to accommodate a wide range of electrical and display design, Honeywell MICRO SWITCH^TM toggle switches are available in many shapes, sizes, and configurations to enhance manual operation with a flexible and attractive interface. Flush or panel-mount versions with silver or gold contacts meet a variety of electrical load requirements. Military grade and environmentally sealed options are available.

Pressure and Vacuum Switches

Built for sudden pressure spikes and high pressure in any system. Honeywell Hobbs pressure and vacuum switches feature set points ranging from 0.5 psi to 3000 psi. With the flexibility to modify switches to meet customer requirements, these rugged components have excellent repeatability of set points at temperature extremes and wide media capability.

Relays

Honeywell relays are designed for applications that require stability and reliability, including power and logic control. Featuring small package size, vibration and shock resistance, and high dielectric strength, our relays offer a choice of socket styles for easy maintenance.

Solid State Switches

Honeywell combines a miniature-sized mechanical switch’s construction and mounting convenience with solid state technology to create rugged, reliable switches. The switching element is a Hall-effect transducer with a trigger and amplifier integrated on a silicon chip. Switches accept either AMP or MOLEX connectors.

Airflow Sensors

Measuring flow and differential pressure, these sensors contain advanced microstructure technology to provide a sensitive and fast response to flow, amount/direction of air or other gas, and even proportional output voltage. Honeywell airflow sensors contain a thin-film, thermally isolated bridge structure that consists of a heater and temperature sensing elements.

Current Sensors

Honeywell current sensors offer accurate and fast response for a variety of applications. Our magnetoresistive technology has almost no thermal drift or offset with temperature, providing very stable, repeatable measurements. Series includes adjustable linear, null balance, digital, and linear current sensors.

Fiber Optic Sensors

Honeywell’s fiber optic sensors provide solutions for demanding and high-performance applications such as short-haul data communications over plastic fiber, analog, and digital interfaces and duplex communication over a single fiber. Meet SERCOS and other standards. Liquid level sensors are miniature, solid state devices in a variety of housing types for detecting the presence or absence of a wide range of liquids. Normal, condensation, bubbling, and variable application types available.

Flexible Heaters

Flexible HeatersResistive devices available in flat, molded-to-shape, spiral wrap, transparent, composite, and high temperature configurations with single, multiple, and variable watt densities to customize heat output to unique applications. Can be bonded to other system parts or combined with thermostats, thermocouples, temperature sensors, or thermal fuses.

Force Sensors

force-sensorsHoneywell force sensors offer a variety of package styles and various electrical interconnects including prewired connectors, printed circuit board mounting, and surface mounting for flexibility. Sensors concentrate the force from the application, through the stainless steel plunger, directly to the silicon sensing element.

Hall-Effect Rotary Position Sensors

Using a magnetically biased Hall-effect integrated circuit (IC) to sense rotary movement of the actuator shaft, these transducers vary output voltage or current in response to the magnetic field changes. Honeywell’s non-contacting approach to Hall-effect rotary position applications provides longer life solutions that excel in most harsh environments.

Humidity Sensors

Configured with integrated circuitry to provide on-chip signal conditioning, Honeywell humidity sensors ensure linear voltage output versus %RH. Laser trimmed for stable, low-drift performance, they are packaged in chemically resistant packaging to accommodate many harsh environments.

Infrared Sensors

Optoelectronic standard IREDs, sensors, and assemblies for object presence, limit and motion sensing, position encoding, and movement encoding. Honeywell Infrared sensors are manufactured in a variety of package styles, materials, and terminations to provide application flexibility along with component, subassembly, and custom assembly options.

Keyless Entry Sensors

Industry leading sensor responsiveness and low power usage. Utilizes coded communication via 3D low frequency/radio frequency techniques.

Magnetic Position Sensors

Honeywell’s magnetic position sensor family includes digital and analog Hall-effect position sensors, magnetoresistive digital sensors, Hall-effect vane sensors, gear-tooth sensors, and magnetic sensors. Magnetic position products are reliable, high speed, long-life sensors that are directly compatible with other electronic circuits.

Oxygen Sensors

High-accuracy oxygen measurement, without reference gas. Honeywell oxygen sensors employ two ZrO2 discs with a small, hermetically sealed chamber between the discs. The first disc functions as a reversible oxygen pump, which successively fills and empties the chamber. The second disc measures the ratio of the partial pressure difference and generates a corresponding voltage.

Position Sensors

These Honeywell units have rugged extruded aluminum housings to withstand harsh chemicals and immersion into oils or water. Construction features include extended life PTFE bearings, precious metal multi-finger contact wipers, and MYSTR® conductive plastic thick-film elements.

Pressure Sensors - Silicon

Honeywell Sensing and Control's silicon pressure sensors contain sensing elements that consist of four piezoresistors buried in the face of a thin, chemically-etched silicon diaphragm. These sensors are small and reliable, along with featuring excellent repeatability, high accuracy, and reliability under varying environmental conditions.

Pressure Sensors – Stainless Steel Media Isolated

Full line of sensors for use with media compatible with stainless steel. Most Honeywell pressure sensors use bonded strain gage technology, making them very resistant to the effects of shock, vibration, and hostile environments. Measurement types include absolute, gage, and sealed gage. All products are fully compensated and tested to meet specifications before shipment.

Proximity Sensors

These rugged, one-or-two-piece products are designed to meet demanding temperature, vibration, shock, and EMI/EMP interference requirements, and are available in a number of housing materials and termination styles.

Rotary Position Sensors

Honeywell Sensing and Control offers a wide selection of digital and analog Hall-effect, magnetoresistive, and potentiometric devices for sensing the presence of a magnetic field or rotary position. Sensors are directly compatible with other electronic circuits for application flexibility.

Speed Sensors

Honeywell Sensing and Control speed sensors may be used for measuring speed, position, and presence detection utilizing magnetoresistive, variable reluctance, Hall-effect, variable inductance, and Spiral technologies. Manufactured as zero speed, bi-directional, and omni-directional speed sensors, these devices are available with options including high temperature, multiple coil, and torque/timing VRS speed sensors.

Temperature Sensors

Customized probes, thermistors, and RTD sensors compose the Honeywell Sensing and Control temperature sensor offering. The RTD Series feature two distinct lines (silicon and platinum), all of which are laser trimmed for accuracy and interchangeability. Plastic and ceramic, miniaturized, and surface-mount housings are available options, along with printed circuit board terminations.

Thermostats

Honeywell Sensing and Control manufactures commercial and precision snap-action thermostats including automatic or manual reset options, phenolic or ceramic housings, and a wide variety of mounting brackets and terminal options. Precision thermostats include both hermetic and nonhermetic devices. Many catalog listings meet domestic and international approvals, as well as appropriate military specifications.

Trimmers

Honeywell Sensing and Control trimmers offer superior setting capabilities. They are constructed with cermet elements for stability over their operating range. Multi-turn trimmers are available in both square and rectangular housings. Single-turn trimmers are available in square housings.

Wirewound Resistors

Rugged products meeting military specification standards. Honeywell Sensing and Control wirewound resistors are available in a variety of sizes and package styles that include an adjustable style.

Pressure Transducers

Honeywell manufactures a wide range of absolute, gage and true gage pressure sensors, specializing in high pressure sensors and flush diaphragm sensors. Measuring pressure up to 175,000 psi our foil-based strain gage technology enables our sensors to withstand pressures that would destroy silicon-based or micromachined pressure sensors. For high-frequency measurement or when used in space-limited applications, our flush diaphragm pressure sensors are designed for ruggedness and reliability. Unamplified, amplified and digital output options available.

Load Cells

Honeywell manufactures a wide range of tension, compression and universal measurement load cells. Our load cells are industrially rugged and feature enhanced reliability with stainless steel constructions. Using bonded foil and semiconductor Honeywell load cells are designed to measure force from 25g to 3 million pounds. With one of the highest levels of accuracy and widest range of temperatures available, our load cells are available in most common footprints. Unamplified, amplified, and digital output options, dual bridge, vibration, and fatigue rated options available.

Torque Transducers

Honeywell Sensing and Control offers rotary and reaction (non-rotating) torque transducers, featuring bonded strain-gauge technology. Offers both in-line mounting configurations and clamp-on sensors, with wireless analog telemetry (WDC) and wireless digital telemetry (TMS). Torque measurements from 25 oz-in (0,18 Nm) to 250,000 ft-lb (339,000 Nm). Miniature reaction through clamp-on style from 100 mm [4 in] to 900 mm [35 in] diameter.

Displacement Transducers

Our linear variable displacement transducers are designed to meet ruggedness requirements of most single- and multiple-point industrial gauging applications in addition to micro-displacement instruments in research and scientific laboratories. Models are available with free unguided, captive spring return and captive guided armatures with dc/dc or ac/ac electrical options. Linear variable displacement transducers operate in temperatures as low as -50C (-58F) up to 125C (257F).

Accelerometers

Honeywell Sensing and Control manufactures accelerometers offering a wide range of frequencies from dc to 6,000 Hz and full ranges of 5g to 2,000g. These units are designed to survive overloads up to 500% and are designed for operating temperatures from 38C (100F) to 260C (500F). We offer various sizes, including miniature transducers, and a wide array of mounting configurations. Bi-axial and tri-axial measurements and special submersible units are also available. Honeywell accelerometers can be ordered with built-in signal conditioning and also with velocity output.

Instrumentation

Honeywell offers a range of instruments including single-channel, multi-channel and microprocessor based units. Our inline amplifiers are appropriate for use with Honeywell transducers and transmitters in addition to other brand products. The Accu-Gage line offers digital pressure gages and combine portability, enhanced accuracy and durability.

Plug-and-Play with Honeywell and National Instruments

Honeywell and National Instruments provide numerous plug and play solutions between instrumentation and sensors for measuring load, pressure, torque and more over USB, Ethernet, and Wi-Fi. See how easily our systems work together.

Controls

Honeywell engineers control interfaces that are functional, rugged, and aesthetically pleasing. Shifters and turn signals meet the direction and speed control requirements of most off-highway applications. Completely sealed, Honeywell Hobbs controls offer a variety of potential operations including wiper speeds, headlamp controls, button, and auto-cancel options. Custom handlebar designs provide OEMs with unique options for integrated controls.

Lighting

More than 20 million LED, HID, incandescent and halogen work lamps are used in some of the most rugged working environments imaginable. Because they are designed for use in heavy construction and farming equipment, they are also engineered to take shock, vibration, and other extreme service conditions in stride.

Monitors

Honeywell offers a wide range of hour meters and monitors used to record and track the total elapsed time that equipment is in use. To ensure our high standards of quality, all parts are in-process tested for functionality and timing accuracy before shipping.

Shifters

Rugged Construction. Custom Solutions. Honeywell Sensing and Control (S&C) shifters are expertly crafted for enhanced off-highway application performance, precision, direction, and speed control. Our electromechanical shifters are completely sealed and built to withstand rugged conditions and harsh environments

Turn Signals

Expert Construction. Tailored Solutions. Honeywell Sensing and Control (S&C) turn signal switches are built to perfectly complement our line of industry-leading shifters, or can be mounted as independent units. A wide variety of operations are available — from wiper speeds, headlamp controls and buttons to auto-cancel options. And each mechanism is built to withstand harsh environments.

Key and Rotary Switches

Key switches and rotary switches often used on control panels or machinery in harsh environments.

Micro Switch^TM Safety Switches

Honeywell solutions for machine guarding applications include operator point-of-operation protection, access detection, presence sensing, gate monitoring, and electrical interfacing. Series includes safety interlock, limit, cable pull, and non-contact switches. Honeywell MICRO SWITCH^TM safety switches are high-quality, dependable, and cost-effective solutions for safety hardguarding and perimeter emergency stop applications.

Safety Light Curtains

Honeywell safety light curtains are photoelectric barriers composed of several infrared beams aligned on an emitting column and a receiving column. Different resolutions permit the detection of an approaching finger, hand, limb, or body. Separate or self-contained control units, various housing sizes, resolutions, scanning ranges, and protection heights are available.

Safety Control Modules

Honeywell control modules provide an interface between safety sensors and machine control circuitry to ensure a safer working environment. Module functionality includes safety door monitoring, emergency stop, control and relay for safety light curtains with safety static outputs, two hand control, extension, standstill and low speed monitoring, time delay, standstill, and muting.

Safety Edges

Honeywell safety edges provide zone protection in harsh industrial environments. Safety edges combine an emitter and a receiver, a rubber profile mounted on an aluminum rail, and a control unit. Product may easily be adapted to different lengths due to the electronic sensors which automatically adjust the scanning range to the length of the protected area.

Machine Safety Accessories

Specialty or proprietary products and accessories related to Honeywell Sensing and Control machine safety switches and sensors. Includes levers, keys, kits, lenses, rods, covers, and more.

Capabilities Overview

Our half-century of expertise in aerospace, avionics and defense is unrivaled. Honeywell-patented technologies and engineered excellence delivers electromechanical and sensor systems — from discrete components to pilot interface and controls. We develop custom solutions and key switching and sensing products for the widest range of customers. Products include: RVDT, LVDT, resolver, synchro, potentiometer, and switches as the standard sensing elements most accepted in the Aerospace industry.

Linear Force Measurement

Honeywell offers fully packaged, qualified force sensors for many applications including pilot/crew force measurement, boom force, brake force, and where force measurement is required for control use or flight data recorder input. We offer several technologies including bonded strain-gage and spring-LVDT to measure forces. Our force sensing devices are commonly designed into load-carrying control rods or linkage, with added features such as redundant channels, backup load-paths, and integral signal conditioning.

Integrated, Value-added Assemblies

Honeywell’s Precision Aerospace electromechanical team provides turnkey development and manufacturing of complex electromechanical assemblies. Drawing on our core competencies in precision electromechanical design and sensors integration for the Aerospace industry, we provide a variety of custom solutions that solve challenging problems for our customers.

Pilot Controls

Honeywell offers fully packaged, qualified pilot control equipment for both aircraft and military ground vehicles. Utilizing many of our sensing technologies, we can provide a full solution for many pilot control needs.

Pressure Switches (Aerospace Grade)

Honeywell aerospace-grade pressure switches are designed for rapid customization to the precise, demanding requirements of aerospace and defense applications. The aerospace-applicable pressure switches are used to indicate gas or liquid pressure in potential applications such as hydraulics and fire suppression systems. The sealed stainless steel housing contains a MICRO SWITCH™ precision subminiature switch which can be modified and adjusted in-house as required.

The standard product is easily configurable, ensuring shorter prototyping, development and delivery times than other commercially-available switches

Rotary Position Measurement

Designed specifically for the most demanding aerospace and military applications and customers, Honeywell manufactures a wide range of rotary position sensors for applications onboard aircraft, military vehicles, and other platforms. The line includes a range of sensing technologies including resolvers, RVDTs, synchro, potentiometers, and other technologies. Offering a high level of accuracy and a wide range of custom packaging, to deliver complete solutions.

Torque and Multi-Axis Sensing

Honeywell offers fully packaged, qualified torque sensors for applications including pilot/crew force measurement or where torque measurement is required for control use or flight data recorder input. We offer several technologies including bonded strain-gage and spring-LVDT, These torque sensing devices are commonly designed into load-carrying control linkage, and support such added features such as redundant channels, backup load-paths, and integral signal conditioning.

OEM Repair and Overhaul Services

Honeywell Sensing and Control is an OEM and PMA holder for a variety of position transmitters, cockpit indicators, accelerometers, and pilot control equipment. We invite you to experience the benefits of OEM factory repair and overhaul on our products.

We are EASA and FAA certified, and also support a range of military equipment.

Wireless Web Site

With Limitless™, we’re harnessing the power of possibility. We’re bringing the promise of wireless technology to a world of applications. Our series of switches is just the beginning. This is a gateway, a springboard to a world of wireless applications.

Limitless™ WGLA Global Limit Switch and WPMM Series Monitor

The Limitless™ series of switches is based on 802.15.4 point-to-point communications and can be configured to potentially allow up to sixteen devices to communicate with one receiver module. The products are based on Honeywell's proven harsh duty and medium duty limit switches.

XYR6000™ Wireless Position Switch

The XYR6000 Position Sensor allows remote, reliable monitoring in a variety of applications to avoid the time and safety risk of manually monitoring devices such as valve position in hazardous areas and remote installations. Wireless technology eliminates the need for communications cabling or power line installation, saving both time and money.