Data Acquisition User's Guide-1 for Fuel/Engine Evaluation System Applied to an Experimental Air Stirling Engine

Abstract

This technical note describes the Data Acquisition (DA) System used in the evaluation of Experimental Air Stirling Engine No. 1 which had previously been designed and built as a part of the Advanced Engines studies for the Fuels/ Powerplants Technical Subprogram 25B. The DA system and capability is presented. Brief programming guidelines for controlling various peripheral electronic equipment through a mini-computer are given. The program software used in testing the Stirling engine is described. Finally, some limitations of the DA system are listed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA128404

Entities

People

  • Gary D. Webster
  • Ian R. Bingham

Organizations

  • Defence Research and Development Canada

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acquisition
  • Combustion
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Analysis
  • Digital Data
  • Efficiency
  • Energy Consumption
  • Instructions
  • Kilobytes
  • Oscilloscopes
  • Recording Systems
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Waveforms
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Optical Fiber Sensing and Electromagnetic Propagation.
  • Petroleum Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics