StrainSense Limited
StrainSense Ltd - Making Sense with Sensors
StrainSense is a trusted and reliable supplier of specialist sensors and instrumentation products. We supply quality sensors for vibration, acceleration, shock, strain, pressure, weight, position, force, fluid properties, instrumentation, tilt/inclination and torque. We also supply the latest data acquisition equipment enabling you to satisfy all your sensor requirements in one place.
We have a wealth of experience in the Automotive, Crash Test, Flight Test & Military, Aerospace, Space & Satellite, Subsea, Rail, General Test & Measurement and Education markets and we supply both off the shelf and bespoke products.
We have a team of knowledgeable and experienced engineers waiting to help you. Our customers come back to us time and time again for the following reasons:
- Our application and market knowledge
- Our industry leading products
- Our solution lead approach
- Our ability to supply standard and custom designs
OUR PRODUCTS
Accelerometers
- Strain gauge, piezoresistive and piezoelectric technologies
- Ranges up to +/-60,000G, Mv and DC amplified
- Wide range of Single and Tri Axial sensors, +/- 0.5% accuracy
- High operating temperature and environmental sealing
- Plastic, anodized aluminium or stainless steel housings
- Application specific designs available on request
Torque Transducers
- Rotating Contactless, Rotating slip ring or Static Torque
- Ranges from 0-20,000 Nm
- Flange, Through Hole or Plain Shaft mounting options
- Choice of electrical input/output options, including RS485
- Accuracy up to 0.1%
- Custom designs
Force/Loadcells
- Foil & piezoresistive silicon strain gauge technology
- Low cost OEM cells available in plastic and stainless steel
- Low profile designs for tension / compression mode
- Ranges from 1g to 1,000 te
- Wide operating temperature range
- Custom designs with analogue or digital outputs
Signal Conditioning
- Miniature analogue amplifiers
- Digital addressable set-up analogue amplifiers
- Low and high-pass analogue filters
- Constant current and constant voltage excitation
- Digital panel meters, trips
- Addressable wireless amplifiers
Linear/Rotary Position
- Extensive range of products available for OEM and end user
- Multiple sensing technologies to suit the application
- Ranges from 0.1mm to 100m linear; 30 to 360 degree rotary
- Infinite resolution and excellent linearity options
- High operating temperature, speed and environmental sealing
- Many custom options available on request
Strain Gauges
- Range of high quality foil and encapsulated foil designs
- Fully wired and encapsulated options for quick installation
- High temperature strain gauges to 1325oC
- Standard and custom range of weldable gauges available
- Installation service available
- Wide range of accessories
Pressure Sensors
- Extensive ranges from heavy industrial to board level
- Gauge, absolute and differential pressure to 0.01%
- Wide range of threaded pressure ports or flush mount
- Choice of electrical outputs, ATEX approved
- Ranges from 0.05 to 5000 bar, vacuum sealing up to IP67
- High operating temperatures available
Fluid Properties
- One sensor measures 4 properties of fluids
- Viscosity, density, dielectric constant and temperature
- Monitors the condition of fuel and lubricants
- Real-time monitoring
- Maximise performance of fuels and lubricants
- CAN-bus to ECU, logger, control system etc.
Data Acquisition
- Acquisition rates to 200kHz to 256 channels
- High and low pass filtering
- Portable battery powered available
- Data storage on CF or SD card
- USB, Bluetooth and GPRS data transmission
- OBD CAN port logging
Inclinometers
- Single and Dual Axis with analogue and digital I/O
- Capacitive and electrolytic technologies
- Die case aluminium, rugged plastic and ceramic packaging
- Low cost, OEM board sensor modules available
- Ranges up to +/- 60 degrees, linearized to +/- 45 degrees
- Temperature compensated with accuracy up to 0.1% (linearity)
Inertial navigation
- Attitude and heading reference system (AHRS)
- Gyro/rate sensor
- Inertial measurement unit (IMU)
- Fibre optic and quartz sensor technology
- Single, dual and triaxial sensors
- No ITAR restrictions
Level and depth
- Sensors for surface water and ground water
- Ocean depth measurement
- Accuracies to 0.01%
- Depth to 10,000m
- ATEX approvals
- Stainless steel, Inconel and titanium construction
