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Monitoring Meteorological Data Using a dataTaker
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers has provided the dataTaker environmental monitoring system for a construction company which required an onsite weather station for their study of weather damage upon building materials ...
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Haitian Hospital Monitors Vaccine Temperatures Over WiFi
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers has just provided the vaccine temperature monitoring solution for Hôpital Sacré-Coeur (HSC), a 122-bed tertiary hospital located in Milot, Haiti. To help protect these products, the ...
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Liquefied Natural Gas Fueling Stations
From: MSA SafetyDescription: Public and private fleet vehicles continue to migrate to use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and compressed< natural gas (CNG) as this cleaner-burning fuel also offers lower fuel costs and lower ...
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Monitoring Sample Stores for a Pharmaceutical Manufacturer
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Pharmaceutical product manufacturing is synonymous with strict quality control and traceability. A leading pharmaceutical manufacturer in the UK required a temperature data logger to continuously ...
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Natural Gas Fleet Maintenance Facilities
From: MSA SafetyDescription: LNG (liquefied natural gas) and CNG (compressed natural gas) are common methane fuels used by long haul trucking firms as well as municipal fleet vehicles, also known as NGVs (natural gas vehicles). ...
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Installation of MS45XX Pressure Sensors
Description: This paper provides suggested guidelines for the proper integration of the MS45x5 series pressure sensor into OEM designs. It also gives guidance in selecting the proper bypass capacitor and pressure ...
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LVDT Operation
Description: This document provides additional technical insight to customers who need a better understanding of LVDTs, as well as to engineers who design or specify electronics. ...
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Digital 3D Measurement of Complex Parts and Shapes
From: Micro-Epsilon GroupDescription: Mabotic develops and manufactures various designs of digital scanning units. scanCONTROL laser scanners are often used for digitisation of parts. ...
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Pharma Cold Chain Transparency Achieved with UHF RFID Temp Tags
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Showcasing the use of UHF RFID technology in the pharma cold chain, CAEN RFID products have successfully provided the temperature monitoring solution for Medlog, a subsidiary of pharmaceutical ...
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Why Use Nitrogen?
From: Terra Universal, Inc.Description: Nitrogen is the standard medium for contamination-free storage because it is relatively inert-it neither reacts with stored materials nor carries moisture-and because it can be isolated and purified ...
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New Precise Method for Measuring Strip Thickness Using Laser Profile Scanners
From: Micro-Epsilon GroupDescription: Increasingly complex processing, optimisation of raw material costs or new standards mean there is a continually growing demand for sensor technology. Optical measuring techniques are becoming more ...
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Thermal Mass Flow Meter Helps Mud Logging Contractor Meet U.S. EPA Flare Gas Emissions Monitoring Requirements
Description: Upstream oil/gas production companies around the globe depend on mud logging service companies to analyze mud samples that help them maintain the correct direction for their drilling field operations. ...
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LITRE METER LAUNCHES SECOND OIL AND GAS SAFETY SURVEY
From: Litre Meter LimitedDescription: Litre Meter has launched the second in a series of oil and gas industry safety surveys that will be introduced throughout 2014. ...
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Telemetry Solution Sends Rainfall Intensity Data Online
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers has just provided the hydrometric monitoring solution for a meteorologist manning a weather station measuring local rainfall intensity over the summer. Previously he had been looking ...
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The 6 Most Important Parts of a Temperature Monitoring System
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: In this White Paper, gather a basic understanding of the importance of a temperature monitoring system to protect your products and comply with standards. ...
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Improving Si-PIN X-ray Detector Performance
From: MOXTEK, Inc.Description: Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) instrument manufacturers and research labs are continually pressing for x-ray components that enable higher performance at a lower cost. High performing x-ray ...
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Introducing a New Paradigm for Thermal Dispersion Mass Flow
From: Sierra Instruments, Inc.Description: Since the publication of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) standard on thermal dispersion mass flowmeters in 2011, there have been major advancements in the technology. A review of ...
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Tips for Selecting the Right Inductive Sensor
Description: Locon Sensor Systems Inc. has an extensive selection of Contrinex inductive sensors that serve as the perfect choice for detecting metallic targets up to 65mm away. Letâ s take an in-depth look at our ...
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New Autoclave Validation Data Logging System
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers and MadgeTech are excited to announce the release of the new AVS140 Autoclave Validation Data Logger System, featuring the HiTemp140 and the PR140 temperature and pressure data loggers ...
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Getting Down To Earth. A Practicle Guide To Earth Resistance Testing
From: MeggerDescription: Nothing is quite so common or abundantly available throughout the world as the earth's soil. We are more apt to think of earth as something to be tilled for planting or to be excavated for a building ...
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What Every Hospital Should Know About Temperature Monitoring
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Accurate monitoring and alarming is vital for product safety in children's vaccine storage, blood and tissue storage, and other pharmaceutical needs. We at CAS DataLoggers conducted our own ...
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Optical Dissolved Oxygen with ISM® - Minimizing Corrosion in Power Plants
Description: Dissolved oxygen (DO) control is widely used in power plant cycle chemistry treatment to minimize corrosion in boilers, turbines, and piping. Efficient DO control relies on obtaining fast, ...
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Wireless Environmental Monitoring in a Museum
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Eltek has supplied the next-generation wireless monitoring system for the interior of a prestigious museum located in Cambridge, England to ensure that the exhibits are in a controlled and ...
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How to Measure Current and Make Power Measurements
From: NIDescription: Learn how to measure current using transformers, transducers, and data acquisition devices. See how to use current measurements as part of a power quality analysis or power monitoring system Safely ...
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Enhance Control System Security Using Process Switches
Description: This white paper looks at how open Microsoft technology used in virtually all contemporary control systems, such as distributed control systems (DCS) and supervisory control and data acquisition ...
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I2C bus communication with digital HMI, HDI, HCLA, HCA and SSI pressure sensors
From: First Sensor AGDescription: The digital HMI, HDI, HCLA, HCA and SSI pressure sensors are calibrated and temperature compensated with an on-board ASIC, which provides a corrected digital pressure value. For the HDI, HCLA, HCA and ...
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LDE/LME Series - superior immunity to dust
From: First Sensor AGDescription: In this application note LDE/LME differential pressure sensors from First Sensor are experimentally compared to other sensors which use the same (thermal-anemometer-based, non-membrane) sensing ...
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SPI bus communication with digital HME and HCE pressure sensors
From: First Sensor AGDescription: The digital HME and HCE pressure sensors are calibrated and temperature compensated with an on-board ASIC, which provides a corrected digital pressure value. For the HCE series an additional analog ...
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Benefits of IEPE Accelerometer Isolation Design
Description: Integrated electronics piezoelectric (IEPE) accelerometers are a mainstay of the industrial vibration monitoring market. These rugged devices are found in a variety of industries monitoring anything ...
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Tech Brief: Corrosion Considerations for Underwater Vibration Monitoring
Description: Many customers install our sensors on submerged equipment such as pumps and platform support structures. In these applications in addition to the normal vibration requirements, consideration must be ...
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Monitoring and Alarming Multiple Incubators
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Recently Accsense VersaLog provided the temperature monitoring solution for an in vitro fertilization clinic. Staff needed to log temperature on three stacked automatic injection CO2 incubators used ...
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Application Note - Acoustic Transducer Testing with dScope Series III
From: Spectral MeasurementDescription: The requirements for acoustic testing are quite unique within the field of audio analysis, and testing requires particular care to ensure good rejection of unwanted reflections (echoes and ...
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Application Note - Audio Multi-tone Testing using FFT Analysis
From: Spectral MeasurementDescription: Audio analysis with dScope Series III using synchronous multi-tones is fast and powerful. It allows many parameters of the equipment under test to be measured simultaneously, using a single stimulus ...
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Application Note - Broadcast Audio Testing with dScope Series III
From: Spectral MeasurementDescription: The radio broadcast signal chain is a long and complex path involving electro-acoustic transducers, mixers, storage media, interface channels, signal processing and more. Each process within this path ...
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Application Note - FM Multiplex with RDS
From: Spectral MeasurementDescription: The ability to generate an FM Multiplex (MPX) for stereo FM radio reception testing is made possible by the extended audio bandwidth of the dScope Series III audio analyzer. This application note is ...
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Application Note - Impulse Response Testing with dScope Series III
From: Spectral MeasurementDescription: dScope Series III Version 1.2x releases feature a set of tools for measuring impulse responses and derived parameters. Impulse response analysis is a powerful tool which can be used to measure ...
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Application Note - Rapid Bin-Centres Frequency Response Analysis
From: Spectral MeasurementDescription: The dScope Series III is a powerful and comprehensive audio analyzer platform, designed to give the user a great deal of flexibility in analyzing audio signals and carriers, making the system ideally ...
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Performance Challenges in Audio Converter Design - Ian Dennis (Prism Sound)
From: Spectral MeasurementDescription: The habitat of audio converters is ever-changing. Early converters were built into stand-alone digital audio equipment. Later, they were built as stand-alone conversion devices with dedicated digital ...
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Sonic Differences Between Identical CDs
From: Spectral MeasurementDescription: The Numerically-Identical CD Mystery: A Study in Perception versus Measurement The authors investigate claims that numerically-identical CDs can sound noticeably different on replay. It has been ...
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Wireless Water Level Control System for Construction Site Dust Control
Description: Cannon provided a large construction site with a temporary yet sustainable water supply control system. ...
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Confused about Carbon Monoxide & Ventilation?
From: Arjay EngineeringDescription: How does new legislature regarding Carbon Monoxide and Ventilation affect you, as an HVAC contractor? An in-depth look at factors and considerations regarding the implementation of a gas monitoring ...
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Not All Interfaces Are Created Equal
From: Filter Minder®Description: Engineered Products Company (Filter Minder) has recently added to its portfolio a line of Electronic Pressure/Vacuum Sensors suitable for a broad range of transportation and industrial applications. ...
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Guide to Sensor Selection and Placement
From: MSA SafetyDescription: MSA's guide to gas sensor selection and placement. ...
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Comparison of Thermal Buffer Effectiveness
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Abstract: Experimental data was collected to examine the behavior of RTD probes in various thermal buffers in refrigerator and freezer applications. From the warm-up time vs. temperature curves, a ...
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Environmental Noise Control Trends in Instrumentation
From: Convergence InstrumentsDescription: 1 Noise Control Throughout the world, there is renewed effort to control noise levels in residential areas. High noise levels interfere with sleep and various human activities. In the long run it does ...
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Special Considerations for Mounting and Handling Pressure Sensors
From: All Sensors Corp.Description: All Sensors Pressure Points are application tips to simplify designing with microelectromechanical (MEMS) pressure sensors and avoiding common pitfalls. ...
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Understanding Common-Mode Differential Pressure
From: All Sensors Corp.Description: When pressure sensors are used to measure differential pressure (ΔP) for sensing flow, the common-mode pressure issues need to be considered. This is especially true for applications such as ...
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CAS DataLoggers Uses 3D Printing Technology in Prototype Design
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: At CAS DataLoggers we're working on a new prototype design for one of our data logger accessories using a 3D printer assembled by our own Engineering Manager Terry Nagy. Constructed from parts Terry ...
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'Smart' Temperature Data Logger Reduces Solder Waste
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers has just provided the dataTaker 'smart' temperature monitoring data logger for a manufacturing plant looking for a way to reduce the amount of time and money lost on wasted solder and ...
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Using Acoustic Beamforming for Pass-By Noise Source Detection
From: NIDescription: This application note discusses a technique known as beamforming for determining noise location of passing vehicles. The technique has several challenges including simultaneous acquisition of a large ...
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Nitriding Process Temperature Trending Using a Data Logger
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: This November CAS DataLoggers supplied the industrial automation solution to Northeast Coating Technologies in Kennebunk, Maine. Engineer Conrad Woodman is using our dataTaker DT80 Intelligent Data ...
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What is a Data Logger?
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: What is a datalogger? These products are widely-used measurement and data storage tools that monitor your product or process 24/7. Using a data logger you can keep an eye on temperature, humidity, ...
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Data Loggers Monitor & Alarm a Medical R&D Lab
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Earlier this year CAS DataLoggers provided the temperature monitoring and alarming setup for a medical laboratory requiring monitoring of product and sample temperature within multiple medical storage ...
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Temperature and Humidity Monitoring in a Clinical Operating Room
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers recently provided a clinic's operating room with a wireless Accsense temperature and humidity monitoring system. Surgical staff frequently complain about it 'raining' in their OR, ...
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Liquefied Natural Gas / Compressed Natural Gas Opportunities
From: MSA SafetyDescription: Fixed gas and flame detection applications. ...
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Thermal Mass Flow Meter Supports Feedback Control Loop In Boiler System for Thermal Electric Power Generation
Description: To meet China's growing need for electric power generation, the Guohua Ninghai Power Plant has a total planned operating capacity of 4 x 600 MW [Phase 1]. The plant is located south of Shanghai in ...
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Auditing of Fasteners to Prevent Failures
From: Mountz, Inc.Description: The critical question must be asked: If proper joint design and proper torque application still do not guarantee that effective tension has been achieved, how can we know if the installed fastener ...
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Dissolved Ozone Measurement in Pharmaceutical Water
Description: Ozone (O3) is an unstable tri-atomic form of oxygen. It is a very strongly oxidizing gas that is injected into water to remove organics that may contribute color, odor or taste. Most importantly, ...
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Five Reasons to Consider a Wireless Environmental Monitoring System
From: Testo Inc.Description: Monitoring, data management, and compliance are all issues environment administrators struggle with on a daily basis, regardless of industry. Accurate and reliable indoor environmental data for ...
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Impulse Response of 900-Series Biaxial Clinometers with Viscous and Non-Viscous Sensors
From: Jewell Instruments, LLCDescription: The following graphs show the response of 900-Series Biaxial Clinometers to a sudden impulse. ...
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Data Loggers Automate HVAC Product Testing
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers recently supplied the dataTaker remote monitoring solution at the end of May last year for a product development department in a Californian startup energy company. The business ...
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Sensors keep an eye on impact
From: PHD, Inc.Description: Sensors monitor when impact of machine assemblies changes. ...
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Accsense IT Checklist
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Accsense data loggers from CAS DataLoggers are ideal for many different applications including temperature monitoring in the life sciences, cold chain monitoring, and industrial machine monitoring. To ...
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Advancing Mass Flow Technology with Multi-Gas and Multi-Range Programmability
From: Brooks InstrumentDescription: The advent, benefits, and applications of MultiFlo technology. ...
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Hydrogen Monitoring of CVD Process Tools
Description: Hydrogen and the hazards of hydrogen leaks are present in many areas of semiconductor manufacturing facilities. While the basic need to continuously monitor hydrogen leaks is clear, the proper ...
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Monitoring Combustible Gases in Kilns
Description: Knowing how combustible gas concentrations vary over time can lead to a better understanding of the firing process and can inform users about safe loading practices. ...
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Environmental Monitoring in a Manufacturing Plant
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers recently delivered the datalogging solution for a production plant whose process machinery was mysteriously slowing down and causing production delays. This application required a ...
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How to implement SRS test without data measured?
From: DynaTronic CorporationDescription: This paper will emphasize the condition that measured data not available, then for Procedure I - Functional Shock, and Procedure V - Crash Hazard Shock Test, employ the applicable SRS spectrum as the ...
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The vibration reliability test for motorcycle motors
From: DynaTronic CorporationDescription: This paper explores vibrations in motorcycle motors using several steps and instrumentation devices. ...
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Application and Specification of Differential Pressure Sensor Type D6F-PH
Description: Application and Specification of Differential Pressure Sensor Type D6F-PH. ...
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Smart Temperature Alarming for Fresh Seafood
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers has supplied the temperature alarm solution for a fish market selling fresh catches of fish and shellfish as well as sashimi and sushi rolled onsite. Strict temperature control is the ...
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Internet Connection Alarming with Accsense Data Loggers
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: At CAS DataLoggers we occasionally receive calls from Accsense system users asking if and when they should manually disconnect their connection alarms, since by default the system's alarms are always ...
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Selecting Wire Insulation
Description: List of common wire insulation and temperature limits ...
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A Guide to Mechanical Impedance and Structural Response Techniques
From: DynaTronic CorporationDescription: In recent years there has been a rapidly developing interest in the field of mechanical dynamics for a variety of reasons. Firstly, the development of stronger materials and greater economy in design ...
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Phase Tracking in RSTD
From: DynaTronic CorporationDescription: The purpose of Resonance Search, track and dell test is usually for fatigue and durability test, it always can find and test the weakest frequency of test unit, the dwell methods include locked ...
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Sine-on-Sine Testing Reduces Time of Durability Testing
From: DynaTronic CorporationDescription: Sine-on-Sine vibration testing is multi-frequency sine testing, which allows multiple sine tones simultaneously excited in the same testing. This method has become much more popular since a consortium ...
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What is Resonance?
From: DynaTronic CorporationDescription: In physics, resonance is the tendency of a system to oscillate with greater amplitude at some frequencies than at others. Frequencies at which the response amplitude is a relative maximum are known as ...
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Why adopt multivariable control?
From: DynaTronic CorporationDescription: As we all know, before doing vibration testing, we should edit the reference spectrum with the vibration controller, usually low frequencies with constant displacement spectrum, middle frequencies ...
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Sous Vide Cooking Using a Temperature Data Logger
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers has just supplied the temperature monitoring datalogger for a large caterer specializing in cooking sous vide food (French for 'under vacuum'). This increasingly popular style uses ...
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Fuel Consumption Comparison - Off-Road Vehicles
From: AW-Lake CompanyDescription: This customer wanted to do side-by-side fuel consumption comparisons of their product vs. their competitor s products. The object was to have a live demonstration of the consumption while the tractors ...
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Sheath Material Guide
Description: To aid in the selection of a sheath material a brief description of some of the properties of the more commonly used metals is linked below. The material selected must withstand the environmental ...
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CAS DataLoggers Provides the Providers With Server Cabinet Monitoring
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers has just provided the turnkey monitoring/alarming system for an ISP with a large server storage room requiring continual temperature and humidity monitoring at 750 points over ...
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Improving the Hermetic Seal on Moxtek's AP3 Window
From: MOXTEK, Inc.Description: Moxtek® is a leading manufacturer of X-ray windows for low energy X-ray detection. Moxtek manufactures ultra-thin polymer X-ray windows that are attached to metal mounts which house energy ...
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Wireless Monitoring and Alarming System for IVF Incubators
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers has recently provided the medical monitoring and alarm system for an in vitro fertilization clinic which needed a wireless setup to monitor and alarm several incubators. Staff need to ...
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Pressure Measurement Theory and Application Guide
Description: Pressure Measurement Theory and Application Guide White Paper Engineered solutions for all applications ...
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Process temperature measurement practice--contacting
Description: Temperature is one of seven basic values in the current SI-System of units and is probably the most important parameter in measurement technology. Temperature measurements roughly divide into three ...
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Process temperature measurement practice--non-contacting
Description: Non-contacting temperature measurement techniques for the processing industries complement thermocouple and RTD sensors. Innovations in infrared technology are reducing their cost and size while ...
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Reducing leakage through effective flow measurement
Description: The ability to better manage water supplies is becoming increasingly important as demand for water continues to escalate. Even in the UK, which enjoys a wetter climate than many global regions, ...
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About Temperature
Description: In a qualitative manner, we can describe the temperature of an object as that which determines the sensation of warmth or coldness felt from contact with it. ...
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Accuracy Standards
Description: The industry standard for platinum RTD's according to IEC-751 is + /- 0.12% (of resistance) at 0°C, commonly referred to as Class B accuracy. This will provide an accuracy of + /- 0.3°C at 0°C, which ...
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Continuous Silica Monitoring in a Power Plant
From: Hach CompanyDescription: Increasing Efficiency in Power New plant designs and technological developments in the power industry are leading to greater efficiency in converting fossil fuels to energy. Leveraging these ...
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Resistance Temperature Detectors: Theory and Standards
Description: With these general guidelines to the basic function, performance, and recognized standards for RTD's, anyone can specify the right device for the application. ...
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TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT STANDARDS
Description: In 1983, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) adopted the Deutsche Institute fur Normung (DIN) standard of platinum with a TC = 0.00385 ohm/ohm/°C. ...
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Resolving Graphing Issues with Internet Explorer 8 With Accsense Systems
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Microsoft has altered how Internet Explorer renders some flash content in Internet Explorer 8 and above in Windows Vista, 7, and 8. This can cause issues in the Accsense monitoring system web ...
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Understanding Coriolis mass flowmeters
Description: Understanding Coriolis mass flowmeters. ...
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The Importace of Measuring Building Humidity: Best Practices for Sensor Selection
From: Setra SystemsDescription: The final installment of this 3-part whitepaper series reviews best practices for relative humidity sensor selection. ...
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How to Specify Liquid Flowmeters
From: Titan Enterprises, Ltd.Description: Accurate, reliable, cost effective flow measurement is more important today than it has ever been. The years have seen many styles and grades of flowmeter developed, because the first problem in meter ...
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The Importance of Measuring Building Humidity - Health Risks & Dangers
From: Setra SystemsDescription: This whitepaper discusses the health & safety concerns caused by improperly monitoring building humidity levels. ...
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Test piping before reintroducing gas
From: Eclipse, Inc.Description: During repairs or additions piping may not be installed properly or disturbed during work. ...
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Use an LEL when introduction and removal of natural gas
From: Eclipse, Inc.Description: Do not use a combustion flue gas analyzer; use a good quality, recently calibrated LEL (lower explosive limit) meter during natural gas introduction and removal ...