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# Electronic brick - Gas sensor(MQ5) (Seeed Studio)

**Type:** Product page · **SKU:** SSELB123E4P · **Brand:** [Seeed Studio](https://core-electronics.com.au/brands/seeed-studio-australia)
**Page:** https://core-electronics.com.au/electronic-brick-gas-sensor-mq5-seeed-studio.html ([markdown](https://core-electronics.com.au/electronic-brick-gas-sensor-mq5-seeed-studio.html.md))

## Retired product

This product is retired and no longer available for purchase. Search the catalogue for an alternative.

## How to buy

- **Search the catalogue:** `https://core-electronics.com.au/search/{query}.md` (URL-encode the query; pages 2-3 at `search/{query}/{page}.md`; `search.md?q=` also works)
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## Description

This brick comes with a MQ5 gas sensor, you can adjust the sensitivity with the potentioneter.

**FEATURES**

- High sensitivity to LPG, natural gas , town gas
- Small sensitivity to alcohol, smoke.
- Fast response
- Stable and long life
- Simple drive circuit

**Typical detection ranges:**
MQ-5: town gases, hydrogen, 100ppm to 3,000ppm
**Documents** 
Please visit our wiki page for more info about this product. It will be appreciated if you can help us improve the documents, add more demo code or tutorials. For technical support, please post your questions to our [forum](https://www.seeed.cc/).

## Images

- [Product image 1](https://core-electronics.com.au/media/catalog/product/g/a/gaseb1.jpg)