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News Release from: Variohm Eurosensor | Subject: VLP position transducers
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Team on 16 February 2000
Transducer help for Vauxhall Vectra
touring cars
Toward the middle of their 1998 - 1999 season, the Triple Eight Race Engineering team started fitting position transducers supplied by Variohm Components to their Vauxhall Vectra touring cars
Toward the middle of their 1998 - 1999 season, the Triple Eight Race Engineering team started fitting position transducers supplied by Variohm Components to their Vauxhall Vectra touring cars Towcester based Variohm Components Limited supplied both rotary and linear type transducers to Triple Eight which were used in conjunction with a PI logger
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 30 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The rotary units were used to monitor the gearbox and throttle settings while the linear units were used to monitor the suspension and steering functions.
Prior to using the Variohm units, Triple Eight needed to strip, clean and adjust the linear units from their former supplier after just two races! Variohm's VLP units however needed no maintenance whatsoever during the six or seven races that they were on the cars.
Triple Eight have announced their decision to use Variohm units on both of their race cars and their test car for the 1999 - 2000 season.
All of the Variohm units use a potentiometric principle and employ a patented elastomer damping system on the wipers for long life even under the extremely arduous conditions experienced in Touring car racing.
They are of course, equally well suited to industrial applications where high repeatability and long life at reasonable cost are important considerations.
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