PC measurement solutions can cover a large range of products and configuration. But for our discussion PC measurement will be the use of a personal computer and a data acquisition board or card together to make a measurement system.

      A PC measurement can be made using the combination of a personal computer and a data acquisition board or card allow a scientist, engineer, technician, researcher or hobbyist to make highly precise digital and analog measurements, and manipulate the results after the measurement (s) have been made.

      A user can measure a wide range of voltages from almost an unlimited variety of sources. Measurements of all kinds can be made using transducers to convert a physical change like pressure, stress, flow, temperature, strain, etc. into an electrical signal, which a data acquisition board will measure and converter to a digital signal, thus completing a PC measurement.

      The manipulation of this data means that once the PC measurement data is converted to a digital signal equivalent of the analog signal, it can be easily stored, compared, subtracted from, added to, multiplied by, divided into or in most anyway be arithmetically used to make a judgment or decision about the measured signal.

      A simple example of a pc measurement would be using a personal computer and a data acquisition board or card to first measure the temperature of an industrial oven. Once the temperature is known, it can be compared to limits stored in memory. If the temperature is to high, the fuel or airflow firing the oven can be reduced, by having the acquisition board or card send a signal back to the oven. Likewise if the temperature is too low the fuel or airflow can be increased.

      Both measurement and control signals can be produced by the combination of a personal computer and data acquisition board

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