SGR510/511/512 Torque Sensor

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Key features

• Transducers from 175mNm to 13000 Nm.
• Minimal side and end load errors
• Low linearity deviation of ± 0.05 % FSD
• Low hysteresis error of ± 0.05 % FSD
• Zero variation in torque signal with rotation (cyclic variation)
• Non contact signal transmission, no slip rings to wear out
• High digital sample rate of 4000 samples per second
• Speed measurement /Angle / Power computation
• Wide power supply range 12-32 VDC

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About the SGR Torque Sensor

Torqsense Digital rotary strain gauge series (SGR) Transducers use non contact technology eliminating the need for noisy slip rings. They are suitable for torque measuring, testing, feedback control of drive mechanisms and process control applications.

The SGR series transducers use modern strain gauge signal conditioning techniques to provide a high bandwidth low cost torque measuring solution with high overrange and overload capabilities.

The TorqSense SGR510/511/512 series transducers offer:

• SGR510 - Torque measurement only
• SGR511 - Torque, speed & power measurement 
  (60 pulses per revolution encoder)
• SGR512 - Torque, speed/angle & power measurement (360 pulses per revolution incremental encoder)
  
  
• Fixed voltage or current analog outputs for interfacing with analog instrumentation. 3 channels are available, channel assignment based on model.
• BIT Self-diagnostics - Diagnostic system checks internal systems and operational conditions for faults, and monitors torque, speed and temperature for overscale conditions.
• Transducer status LED and simple „Sensor status“ output pin, provide transducer health feedback.
• Sensors to monitor shaft temperature for better compensation and accuracy.

Technology

The SGR series torque transducers use a full four elementstrain gauge bridge to measure the torsion present on a shaft. The full bridge helps to diminish errors from any off-axis forces that are sometimes unintentionally
applied to the transducer in some test setups.

The full bridge also increases the sensitivity and the temperature performance of strain measurement.

A rotor mounted ultra-miniature microcontroller measures the strain gauge bridge and transfers the information back to the stator digitally eliminating any noise pickup usually associated with slip ring and other analog methods of transferring torque data from rotor to stator. External noise pickup into the gauge wiring is virtually eliminated due to the short distance between the strain gauge elements and the rotors measuring
circuits.

A multipoint calibration method reduces any linearity errors within the sensor. A large functional overrange capability allows the peaks of a torque signal to be captured
more faithfully without any clipping when operating the sensor close to its full scale rating.

All this combined with a mechanical overload capability of over 400% make the SGR series torque sensors a very robust and accurate torque measuring solution.

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