Hello:
I am working on a strain guage project for our formula sae car. In order to measure suspension travel we want to hook up strain guages to each corner of the car so when the shock compresses, it sends a 0-5V signal to the mychron we have.
The question i have is this: i found this item online and i was wondering how we could implement this into our project. The strain guage will run through an amplifier to give us the 0-5v signal needed. We wish to run this off of the car battery (12V):
http://www.blh.de/pdfamp/ba660_e.pdf
looking at this since we wish to run 4 strain gauges (one per spring) can someone explain the pins in question?
screw terminal:
pin 1: is this the input from the strain gauge (+)?
pin 2: is this the input from the strain gauge (-)?
pin 3: what is this? excitation?
pin 4: what is this? excitation?
pin 5: self explanatory
pin 6: what is analog out?
pin 7: self explanatory
pin 8: what is this?
pin terminals:
pin 1: self explanatory
pin 2: self explanatory
pin 3-pin7: what are these for?
pin 8: what is this for?
finally why is there a power supply input for both sides? shouldnt there only be one since there is only one power source?
Thank You
I am working on a strain guage project for our formula sae car. In order to measure suspension travel we want to hook up strain guages to each corner of the car so when the shock compresses, it sends a 0-5V signal to the mychron we have.
The question i have is this: i found this item online and i was wondering how we could implement this into our project. The strain guage will run through an amplifier to give us the 0-5v signal needed. We wish to run this off of the car battery (12V):
http://www.blh.de/pdfamp/ba660_e.pdf
looking at this since we wish to run 4 strain gauges (one per spring) can someone explain the pins in question?
screw terminal:
pin 1: is this the input from the strain gauge (+)?
pin 2: is this the input from the strain gauge (-)?
pin 3: what is this? excitation?
pin 4: what is this? excitation?
pin 5: self explanatory
pin 6: what is analog out?
pin 7: self explanatory
pin 8: what is this?
pin terminals:
pin 1: self explanatory
pin 2: self explanatory
pin 3-pin7: what are these for?
pin 8: what is this for?
finally why is there a power supply input for both sides? shouldnt there only be one since there is only one power source?
Thank You
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