How they work

HOW THEY WORK

With the linear displacement, position, and velocity transducer mounted at a fixed position, the wire rope is attached to a moveable object. As movement occurs, the wire rope extends and rotates an internal sensing device to produce an electrical output signal proportional to the position and/or velocity of attached movable object. An internal torsion spring maintains tension on the wire rope and serves as the retraction mechanism for the linear displacement transducer. The position and velocity sensing device may be a precision potentiometer, digital encoder, hall sensing device, or for velocity measurement, a tachometer.