Bench Top Test Design

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Bench Top Test Design

• Marina Tharayil

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Plenum Chamber II
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P C II - Exploded
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Flaps (15mmx60mm)
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Stringer (steel)
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Stringer Frame
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Frame
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Plenum Chamber II

• 15mm x 60mm Flaps, H-Alloy Nitinol (AF 100C)
  0.006 thick.
• Provision for the addition of a baffle.
• Four pressure taps, pressure transducer, and
  laser displacement sensor for measurements.
• Minco heater - 13.7mm x 50.8mm

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Pressure Transducer

• PX242
• 0-5 psi Gage transducer
• Excitation 8 Vdc regulated (16 V max.)
• Output 1 to 6 Vdc
• Response Time 1 ms
• 159.00

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Data Acquisition System

• Desktop based
• More economical
• Efficient
• Bulky - hard to move around

• Laptop based
• More expensive (1000 more)
• Made to run efficiently - so might not have high
  signals to drive control system
• Portable.

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Desktop

• DELL Dimension 4100 Series, Pentium III processor
  _at_ 800MHz
• 128 MB 133 MHz SD RAM
• 1,527.00
• PCI-DAS1200
• 16 Channel 330KHz 12-Bit A/D with 3uS Burst Mode
  Prog Gain, 2 D/As
• 649.00

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Laptop

• Dell Inspiron 5000 Notebook, 650 MHz
• 2,367.00
• PC-Card DAS16/12AO
• 16-channel, 100kHz 12-bit A/D, 2 D/A, 4 DI or 4
  DO, 1 CTR
• 549.00