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ratiometric ADC, is it feasible to separate reference voltage and excitation voltage by an amplifier

I have a variety of bridge transducers (pressure, strain gage) with sensitivity of 1mV/V. Also, most 24-bit ADCs and analog frontend chips have a PGA with programmable gain between 1-128. This means ...
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Electrical Displacement Transducers

Please can you clarify for me what responsivity, maximum range and linear range mean in relation to an electrical displacement transducer? edit: I know now that responsivity is just output/input ...
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Pros and Cons of 3 Different Transducers

What are the pros and cons of using these different transducers? I can't find see what the difference would be between either of them? I mean, they are all used in converting energy right? Linear ...
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Driving 50W-250W ultrasonic transducers with sine: Any Class B 135KHz monolithic power amp ICs?

My project needs to drive a medium power ultrasonic piezoelectric transducer from a sine wave (/ sawtooth) sweep generator that sweeps +/- 2% of the transducer resonant frequency. The question: What ...
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Ultrasonic Transducer driver

I found some youtube vids on Ultrasonic Cleaning, and thought it would be a cool DIY project. On eBay I found this. Some other transducers in the same range requires 400-800V supply. Anyone have any ...
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Sensor/transducer for low pressure gas measurement?

First time poster here so let me know if I'm missing key info. I'm helping a friend create an Arduino-powered data collection system for his coffee roaster, and we'd like to track the natural gas ...
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Current Transducer with true RMS voltage output [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: ICs that convert an AC signal into its true rms value Can anybody please recommend me a current transducer which has the provision of true RMS voltage output and ...
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Thermocouple array for generating free electrical energy?

Thermocouple is a material (junction between two different metals) which generates potential difference in terms of millivolts, isn't it? Why don't we create a matrix of thermocouples (many ...