Resources
Selection, design and measurement guides, technical notes, and the documentation of the range.
Guides
- Selection guide Choosing a wheel force transducer
Five questions, in the order we ask them, and the model they usually point to.
- Design guide Designing rim and hub adapters for a wheel force transducer
What you may change, what you may not, and how to take mass out of the adapters without losing strength.
- Measurement guide Setting up a wheel force transducer
Fit, restrain, zero, set the origin, record. In that order.
- Measurement guide Instrumentation slip rings: the basics
What a slip ring does, which kind fits your shaft, and what to connect to it.
- Selection guide Slip ring or telemetry: how to bring signals off a rotating shaft
Six questions about the shaft and the test, and the slip ring or telemetry series each answer points to.
- Selection guide Choosing a thermocouple amplifier
Why amplify a thermocouple at the sensor, and the five questions that pick the amplifier.
- Measurement guide Stator restraint and angle correction on a wheel transducer
Two angle errors come from how the stator is held. The PVSR removes one, the SAC device the other.
- Measurement guide Distance and speed from wheel encoders
One encoder per wheel of the non-steered axle, averaged, and a stator restraint without play.
- Measurement guide Wheel force transducer amplifiers and smart sensors
The calibration lives in the smart sensor, not in the amplifier. A spare amplifier takes over without recalibration.
- Measurement guide Multi-axis load cells: what they measure and where they are used
From a force to a signal, then from one axis to six.
- Technical note Strain gage circuits through a slip ring
Ring noise depends on where the bridge arms sit. Put all four on the spinning side.
- Technical note Measuring a total load with transducers in parallel
Paralleled bridges give the total load, if the transducers have the same sensitivity.
- Technical note Platform forces and moments from four three-axis load cells
Four three-axis load cells under a stiff platform give its three net forces and three net moments.
- Technical note Slip ring part numbers and connector options
Nine positions describe an end-of-shaft slip ring. Read them in order.
- Technical note Soldering thermocouple wires to a slip ring
Standard rosin flux is not effective on iron, Chromel and Alumel. Remove the oxide, tin with Aqua Flux, clean, check the insulation.
Documentation
Datasheets, manuals, design guides, drawings and CAD models of the whole range, searchable by reference or by question.
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