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News Release from: Sensor Technology | Subject: Torqsense
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 14 December 2004
Sensors and software showcased at M-Tec
Sensor Technology will be using its stand at the M-Tec exhibition to showcase both new hardware and new software.
Sensor Technology will be using its stand at the M-Tec exhibition to showcase both new hardware and new software Launched at M-Tec 2004 in a single size, the RWT310/320 series of Torqsense rotary torque sensors is now available in a full range of sizes from 1Nm to 10kNm
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 29 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Smaller sensors expand torque applications
The latest additions to the Torqsense range feature a two-piece design, so that the compact head can be fitted into even the smallest of spaces.
Alongside these will be Torqview II, a software programme that generates a virtual instrumentation display of the output from a Torqsense transducer that can be run on virtually any computer.
Torqsense RWT310/320 provides noncontact measurement of torque, speed, power and position of rotating shafts, such as machine drives.
It uses tiny piezoceramic combs fixed to the shaft that distort in proportion to the instantaneous torque level.
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Torquing sense for process plant control
With most machines driven through a rotating shaft, torque monitoring can identify problems before they become critical, as Tony Ingham of Sensor Technology explains.
Digital torque sensor digitises hybrid motor
TorqSense is as a plug-and-play digital torque sensor, which interrogates and analyses a radio signal from a miniature piezo electric detector on the rotating shaft being monitored.
These create data signals that are transmitted via a radio frequency coupling rather than by conventional but clumsy slip rings.
Because piezo technology requires so little power, this is also supplied via the RF coupling.
"Our smallest sensor may be used to measure say the precise dosing of fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals", says Tony Ingham of Sensor Technology.
"The largest can be on full scale test rigs used in the aerospace industries and other heavy duty industrial applications".
Each sensor includes an onboard alphanumeric readout for data collection.
However many users prefer to feed the data streams through to a PC for collection and analysis, which opens up the possibility of displaying the data on a full-sized screen.
Torqview II has fully configurable and scalable graphics modules, so that the information can be presented in a number of different formats including as discrete digital readouts, as analogue dials, as bargraphs etc.
Data such as peak values, time-sequenced and time-stamped values etc, can also be collected and stored in text files or spreadsheets and exported to other programs for subsequent analysis.
Text comments can be incorporated into the data, either using an auto-trigger function or discretely as the user requires.
User configurable inputs, such as 4-20mA signals from accelerometers allow complete customisation of Torqview for every application.
Torqview II incorporates an auto-scaling function that allows it to recognise the individual transducer with which it is working by reading its serial number.
This also allows it to confirm its latest recalibration date and to check security settings relating to the individual user.
Written in LabView, the industry standard for instrumentation programs, Torqview can be run in a stand-alone mode or integrated into users' own unique programs.
It runs on all the popular operating systems, such as Windows 2000 and Windows NT.
"Our Torqsense transducers redefine the ease with which it is possible to collect real-time performance data from machine drive shafts", says Tony Ingham of Sensor Technology.
"Torqview II is the user friendly front end that opens up the technology to any users". Request a free brochure from Sensor Technology ...
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