ESP32 DEVKIT and 12V NPN Sensor

[ienaboard]

I ordered a some new stepdown. But if still will not work I think I need to use a 5V accu for the ESP32 and another 12V accu for sensor.

[ienaboard]

Solved when I was doing a wrong wiring on the breadboard.

Suddenly it began to work perfectly whitout any apparent reason. Then I found that I putted the 4k7 resistor between sensor and input pin instead of between input and output (3V3) pin.

With this wiring works with the internal pull up too.

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Someone can explain me why?

[ienaboard]

I didn't sleep tonight thinking about what happened to my ESP32.
Today maybe I found an answer.


Looking at this image, +Vdc is my ESP32 pin connected to the output. When the sensor's transistor is "active", the output is connected to -Vdc. Whitout a load, I think that transistor in some way goes to shortcircuit with an imprevedible behaviour. If I put a sufficient load, all works.

This is the only explanation I found.

Tanks