Accurate test sensors for any type of motorsport vehicle
Motorsport encompasses more than just Formula 1 and NASCAR automobiles vying for first place glory as they power around a track at speeds topping 220 mph/350 kph. The Motorsport industry also entails the racing of motorcycles, trucks, water craft, snowmobiles, go carts, and even lawn mowers. Whatever it is that’s racing, these vehicles are high performance, finely-tuned, engineering marvels designed to win. Drivers, and the owners of these vehicles, continually seek to better understand and improve materials, components, and systems, as well as to ensure safety. This is accomplished by engineers spending painstakingly long hours in the design labs and testing tracks around the world. In an industry where fractions of a second can mean the difference between victory and defeat, every effort is taken to gain and maintain a competitive advantage. To this end, motorsport companies routinely test and analyze current and newly developed materials, components, systems, and technologies to get increased efficiency and the highest performance achievable. When seconds count, nothing should go into a vehicle unless it adds to its performance. In order to verify positive performance, motorsport companies typically conduct tests and studies including:
PCB® Piezotronics offers a complete line of sensors and instrumentation for the motorsport industry. PCB Models 320C52 and 320C53 UHT-12™ ICP® miniature accelerometers are designed for applications that demand minimal sensitivity change across a wide temperature range. 354C10 ICP® miniature triaxial, thru-hole accelerometer is also ideal for motorsport applications.
PCB Series 339A triaxial ICP® accelerometers, with a temperature coefficient of less than 0.0125% / °F (0.02% / °C), are titanium housed and hermetically sealed 10 mm cubes that have a 10 mV/g sensitivity, a measurement frequency to 10 kHz, and an operating temperature range from -65 to +325 °F (-54 to +163 °C). These sensors provide precision amplitude data for test applications with large thermal shifts such as powertrain vibration testing, powertrain NVH, certain vehicle systems NVH tests, road load data acquisition, and durability testing in climatic chambers.
PCB® also offers an extensive range of single and triaxial ICP® accelerometers; prepolarized and externally-polarized microphones; ICP® preamplifiers and array microphones; ICP® force sensors; ICP® quartz force rings; instrumented impact hammers; and ICP® sensor signal conditioners for use in numerous additional motorsport measurement scenarios.
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