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Category: LVDTs

Linear Voltage Displacement Transducers

Magnetostrictive Sensors

By Frank Posted on January 17, 2013 Posted in gauging, LVDTs, Sensing, Sensors Tagged with gauging, Machine Vision, magnetostrictive, motion control, sensors

Several of my topics in the past have dealt with gauging and measurement. Most of the systems I have worked on in the past used LVDTs, encoders, optical sensors or machine vision when it came to accurately measuring the physical …

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LVDTs

By Frank Posted on August 14, 2011 Posted in gauging, LVDTs Tagged with gauging, LVDT

One of the first applications I wrote about on this blog back in January 2011 was a Rocker Arm Cover gauge that used a number of LVDTs to calculate a plane and its intercept points. In that blog I concentrated …

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Rocker Cover Gauging

By Frank Posted on January 30, 2011 Posted in Applications, LVDTs Tagged with gauging, LVDT

This is an application to determine whether a gasket is located properly in a rocker arm cover. 3 LVDTs were used to measure the outside edges of a plastic rocker arm cover establishing a plane. 4 additional LVDTs were then …

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