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Position, speed and torque measurement
News Release from: Sensor Technology | Subject: RWT-310 and RWT-320
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 August 2005
New torque sensor revolutionises machine
control
Sensor Technology will be showing their new revolutionary RWT-310 and RWT-320 Torqsense rotary torque sensors at the Instrumentation South Exhibition
Sensor Technology will be showing their new RWT-310 and RWT-320 Torqsense Rotary Torque Sensors at the Instrumentation South Exhibition The RWT-310 units utilise a non-contact measurement technique, so reduce the previously difficult task of accurate real-time torque monitoring to the simple task of literally mounting the transducer close to the machine drive shaft under investigation
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 30 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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'Torquing sense' for process plant control
Plant monitoring is particularly vital in the continuous process industries, where multiple machines must act in harmony day after day and failure of one machine can lead to massive loss of production
As such they stand to completely redefine the expectation of machine builders and control engineers.
RWT-320 sensors also feature integral electronics with digital and analogue outputs for torque, speed and power and are directly compatible with PC Interfaces such as serial and USB, being user programmable for analogue signal levels.
Other innovative features include built-in peak torque sampling, storage and torque averaging.
They can operate from a wide range of supply voltages.
To achieve the non-contact operation that makes the Torqsense transducer range unique, SAW (Surface Acoustic Waves) devices are used as frequency dependent strain gauges to measure the change in resonant frequency caused by strain experienced in the drive shaft.
This measurement is directly related to the torque and opens up new horizons for advancing all manner of machine control.
See us on Stand No 104 at the Instrumentation South Exhibition. Request a free brochure from Sensor Technology ...
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