Signal Conditioning Reference Materials

Description: When people think about a wireless foot switch system, the first thing they usually focus on is the pedal itself. But what makes the system work wirelessly is the receiver. The receiver is what takes ...

Description: A PCBA, or printed circuit board assembly, can be thought of as a collection of prewired connections that create the circuit you need. Before PCBAs, every wire had to be connected by hand, which was ...

Description: In the Marine Industry, the impact of equipment failure is a uniquely specialized event. Ships at sea, unlike shore-bound physical plants, do not have the luxury of local maintenance and repair ...

Description: Operation costs are driven by service costs for maintenance, repairs, and unplanned machine downtimes. Offering solutions that minimize these cost factors generates further value potential. ...

Description: In order to understand MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) it is best to start with something else -- something for which it is easier to develop an intuitive feel. This other concept is failure rate ...

Description: Although basic signal conditioning has been in use for many years, it can still present a challenge to the process engineer with several things to be considered in any system that needs to transmit ...

Description: A Reference for DAQ And Analog & Digital Signal conditioning ...

Description: The need to measure and control the operation of machinery or process equipment is as old as the Industrial Revolution. Plant instrumentation has now become the nerves and brain of the modern ...

Description: eNewsletter on resister thermal noises and how signal conditioning modules may help to reduce said noise ...

Description: In this age of electronics, most modern electrical equipment has embedded microprocessors and electronic circuitry to increase functionality and efficiency. ...

Description: Electric current refers to the conceptual flow of atomic particles or electrons through wires and electrical devices. Conductive materials like metal and water allow electric current to easily pass ...

Description: This paper looks at grounding and its role in protecting personnel, protecting equipment, and ensuring the integrity of electrical signals. In this part, we will review circuit grounding and its ...

Description: A common data logging application is measuring voltage or current flowing into or out of a piece of equipment. These measurements can be broadly classified into two groups: AC and DC. At CAS ...

Description: The Cohen-Coon tuning rules work well on virtually all self-regulating processes. These rules were originally designed to give a very fast response, but this results in loops with a very oscillatory ...

Description: Since 1942, well over one hundred controller tuning methods have been developed, each trying to accomplish a certain objective or fill a specific niche. One of these methods is the Internal Model ...

Description: The original Ziegler-Nichols tuning methods published in 1942 aimed for a super-fast speed of response at the expense of control loop stability. However, with a slight modification of their tuning ...

Description: A surge tank is placed between two processing units (Figure 1) to absorb flow rate fluctuations coming from the upstream process so that the flow rate to the downstream process changes less rapidly. ...

Description: Information about signal conversion, conditioning, and measurement. ...

Description: Making basic strain measurements using 24-bit hardware. ...

Description: Which gives you the most accurate reading: A direct RTD signal into a controller or, an RTD signal converted to 4 to 20 mA via a transmitter and then fed into a controller? ...

Description: By incorporating modern CMOS isolation devices into new high-voltage consumer devices, manufacturers can ensure that their smaller, improved systems don't give end users a nasty shock. When we were ...

Description: The scientist's signal processing toolbox for realtime frequency domain characterization of given systems, in particular ones made by state of the art nanooptical engineering, is incomplete. Nowadays ...

Description: A bridge-balance circuit may be used in a transducer-amplifier system to enable precise adjustment of bridge balance. An amplifier's offsets at input and output are important parameters that may be ...

Description: The Split Hopkinson Bar is a device used for testing an object or material's stress and strain under various conditions. Ectron's Model 778 wideband signal conditioner-amplifier has high bandwidth and ...

Description: In a guard-dragger amplifier, the preamplifier is tied directly to the guard. Ectron's Model 751ELN amplifier instead uses a common-mode amplifier to drive the preamplifier circuitry, eliminating much ...

Description: High-frequency common-mode noise may be introduced into a data-acquisition system from a variety of sources, including fluorescent lights and switching power supplies. The excellent high-frequency ...

Description: DC instrumentation amplifiers are simple devices, used to modify signals in some specified way. However selecting amplifiers can be difficult, because specification terminology is neither widely ...

Description: Conversion of continuously varying (analog) voltage levels to discrete binary-numbered (digital) values (e.g., a load cell output can be fed through an A/D convertor to produce a continuous stream of ...

Description: While most signal conditioners amplify or attenuate your signals and provide you with a usable 0-10V or 4-20mA output, few manufacturers actually tell you about their signal conditioner's response ...

Description: In today's ongoing search for sources of alternative energy, clean, green, and renewable are top priorities. Using wind power to convert wind energy into electricity - achieved with wind turbines - is ...

Description: The most dominant application of bridge circuits is in the instrumentation arena. Within these applications, the strain gage as a resistive element sensitive to displacement has been used extensively ...