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Novaer Trainer Will Take To the Sky with CPI
It was a number of years ago that enterprising aviation experts at Embraer, Brazil’s largest aircraft manufacturer, noticed that the market for turboprop planes was dominated by foreign imports. Despite Brazil being the second biggest market for general aviation the
Panel Mount Pendants Keep The Neighborhood Clean
While there are hundreds of part numbers in our waterproof limit switch line, there’s only a couple basic ideas you need keep straight to understand how it all works. For the engineers among you, here’s an equation that might help.
Valve Position Sensing for Mission Critical Flow Applications.
Systems like municipal water supplies, sewage treatment plants, massive cooling and lubrication systems used in chemical, petrochemical, and the oil and gas industry, all share one thing in common: large flow valves that are critically opened and closed by computer
What Can I Do with My Intrinsic Safety Rated Position Sensor?
Well that’s a fine question indeed! And the answer, like the answer to many interesting new technologies, is that it depends mostly on your imagination, and your budget! Here’s just a few of the applications we’ve already been either designed
Reinventing Draw Wire Sensors – Part 2
Draw Wire Sensor Measurement Electronics In our first segment on reinventing draw wire sensors, we discussed the tremendous amount of mechanical design and materials science innovation that went into the creation of an entirely new, high endurance draw wire position
Reinventing Draw Wire Sensors Part 1 – Mechanical Revolution
We have to look at the CPI sensor as having two subsystems: 1.) The mechanical draw-wire mechanism which reduces the long travel of the draw wire to a highly accurate, directly proportional short stroke, and 2.) the electronics that very
Reinventing Draw-Wire Sensors – Introduction
Perhaps one of the most memorable moments of my career at CPI happened over a decade ago, when CPI was first asked to produce a robust hydraulic position sensor for a large well known maker of construction vehicles and equipment. In
A New Angle On Linear Position Sensing
Those of you following our blog for the last few years, already know a few things about our linear position sensor products: They are based on a sophisticated re-implementation of the draw-wire class of linear position measurement systems, proven in
CPI Switches, Bring The Disabled Some Fishes…
In the ever expanding category of interesting applications that our waterproof switches find their way into, we must add this one: the motorized fishing reel for the handicapped. Enter the Elec-tra-mate Corporation of Greensboro North Carolina, pioneers in the design
CPI Announces Intrinsic Safety Rated Position Sensor
CPI Announces its newest member of the Subsea Linear Position Sensor family, the SL1490, CPI’s first fully ATEX & IEC-EX Intrinsic Safety rated sensor. As the first sensor of its type in the world, CPI has again raised the bar