Choose the Right Pressure Sensor

Pressure Sensor Overviews:

Non-Conditioned - Non-conditioned pressure transducers contain the circuitry to make a pressure measurement but none of the equipment or hardware to properly condition the signal for measurement by a digital device. The voltage range for these sensors is in the millivolt range. These sensors require excitation to power the circuit, amplification to increase the accuracy of the measurement, and filtering to eliminate noise that the sensor leads can pick up in noisy environments.

Conditioned - Conditioned sensors have the circuitry for measurement, as well as the components for conditioning the signal all in the sensor unit itself. The housing will contain an instrumentation amplifier, filter, and excitation leads, making the physical sensor a large and usually expensive component. The output of a sensor is usually 0-10V making it ready for connection to a 0-10V DAQ board.