The Transducers, Instrumentation & Control Trainer introduces students to input sensors, output actuators, signal conditioning circuits and display devices through a wide range of hands-on practical activities. The Transducers, Instrumentation & Control Trainer can be used either in conjunction with Optional
Cloud-based Software or with its own standalone teaching materials. This STEM learning resource has been designed to provide practical real world problem solving tasks and activities within the classroom or lab environment. These activities provide an engaging approach that helps teachers show contextualised linkages between Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
This self contained trainer has all the necessary power supplies, light sources and compressed air supplies to carry out a wide range of hands on experimental work.
It is possible to build and test complete closed loop control systems for rotary speed and position making the trainer ideal for use in a control engineering teaching.
Training Concepts:
- Electronic switch
- Basic Control Systems Equipment and Terms Used
- Positional Resistance Transducers
- Wheatstone Bridge Measurements
- Temperature Sensors
- Light Measurement
- Linear Position or Force Applications
- Environmental Measurement
- Rotational Speed or Position Measurement
- Sound Measurements
- Sound Output
- Linear or Rotational Motion
- Display Devices
- Signal Conditioning Amplifiers
- Signal Conversions
- Comparators, Oscillators and Filters
- Mathematical Operations
- Control Systems Characteristics
- Practical Control Systems
Activities Include:
- Compare the applications of a carbon track variable resistor with those of a wire-wound type.
- Deduce temperature from a voltage reading across a transducer.
- Compare the various methods of measuring sound signals.
- Select a suitable display device for a particular voltage measurement.
- Investigate the construction and characteristics of an air flow transducer.
- Determine the characteristics of an ON/OFF control system.
- Investigate the characteristics of a speed control system.
How to Order
Product: Electro Technology -
Transducers, Instrumentation & Control Trainer
Code:
217-50
Other Training Systems available:
Transducers, Instrumentation & Control Trainer Teaching Set (217-00). Includes (
Data Acquisition of Control Systems).
