Displacement Measurement
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What is a potentiometer?
The potentiometer can be described as a device to measure the potential difference, this device is capable to measure the…
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What is triangulation and explain triangulation sensor?
Triangulation is a method that is used to determine the distance by using angles and trigonometry. In a triangulation type…
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What is a magnetostrictive displacement sensor? What are the uses of a magnetostrictive material?
Magnetostriction is the process in which a ferromagnetic material can change its size or shape when it is placed in…
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What is a fotonic sensor?
A fotonic sensor is a fiber optical sensor and it can be used to do the displacement measurement. This sensor…
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What is an eddy current sensor?
An eddy current sensor is a displacement measurement sensor it can be considered as the improved version of an inductive…
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What is a magnetic proximity sensor? What are the types of magnetic position sensors?
A magnetic proximity sensor is a non-contact proximity sensor and it can be used to detect magnetic objects. This type…
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What is an optical proximity sensor?
The optical proximity sensor can be used to detect the position, so basically they are position sensors. This is a…
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What is a capacitive proximity sensor?
A capacitive proximity sensor can detect the object without touching them, the capacitive proximity sensor would look like an inductive…
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What is an inductive proximity sensor?
The proximity sensor is a type of sensor that can detect an object that is near to it without any…
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What is an encoder and what are its types
An encoder is a device that can convert the mechanical motion into an electrical signal, so basically, the encoder is…
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