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need electrical circuit to monitor sensor

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need electrical circuit to monitor sensor

need electrical circuit to monitor sensor

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I have a sensata pressure sensor that outputs a voltage. I want to monitor this pressure transducer from inside my vechile. Have a spreadsheet that does a linear equation takes the voltage and makes it into a pressure (PSI), which is linear in nature.

Want to put together some circuitry that would take the voltage then out put to a display the PSI pressure. 2 digits would be enough seeing as the pressure never goes over 60 PSI.

Any help greatly appreciated.

RE: need electrical circuit to monitor sensor

There's this: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11225 assuming you want it to go to a laptop, since you have a spreadsheet

or you can get https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11741 and do the math in the Arduino and display it on the LCD display. But a display can be had for less: http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-3-3V-0-96-128X64-OLED-... The Arduino is capable of quite a bit of processing, since variants of it are used for autopilots and inertial navigators.

That's assuming you weren't really going solder together something.

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RE: need electrical circuit to monitor sensor

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I can solder no problem. I was thinking more like some littel process with an led that I could package and put in the dash area of my van.

RE: need electrical circuit to monitor sensor

The Arduino with the display shield would be quite compact, possibly a bit of an overkill. But if you want to display pressure in the correct units, you'll need at least something like that, both the calculation capability and the display capability.

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