Test Requirements to test an airfoil in a small air flow tunnel using Labview

Question

I am actually working to automate the experiment titled "surface pressure measurement on an airfoil"in a small air tunnel[wind tunnel by Plint Industries.,UK].I would like to know the basic test requirements like Data acquisition stuff.

Answer 1

HI,
1. You are acquiring an external signal first of all. That is a pressure signal. That must come into a system that acquires physical signal. It can a SCB-68. But for serious applications when you need to remove noise, or in other words, you need to condition the acquired signals, you need Signal Conditioning System. The devices are called SCXI (Signal Conditioning Extensions for Instrumentation). There are different types of SCXI devices such as SCXI-1100, SCXI-1102, SCXI-1140, SCXI-1141, SCXI-1520 etc. You use one or the other depending on your application such a current measurement, voltage measurement, frequency measurement, filter block etc. I am providing some nice links that I would suggest you to take a look at for better understanding.
2. Once yo
u acquire the physical signals and process them using SCXI, you send the processed signals into computer. Here, in the computer, there is something called Data Acquisition card (DAQ). DAQ cards acquire the signals, converts the analog signal into digital and stores into computer memory. Some DAQ cards are PCI-MIO cards.
Please also do take a look at the following link:
Signal Conditioning
Signal Conditioning for Data Acquisition
Analog I/O
Measurement Hardware
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