DAU-DS cable for Sensors
Figure 1. Components and Connections
of the Portable Test Kit.
Portable Test Kit - Operating and Service Instructions
Thank you for buying the ElastiSense Portable Test Kit that operates togetherwith one or two of our
robust and resilient Electro-Active Polymer (EAP) based displacement sensors of the DS series
Connecting the parts of the kit
Up to two ElastiSense DS sensors are supported by the Portable Test Kit when connected to the Data
Acquisition Unit (DAU) by the connection cable DAU-DS (for each DS sensor that is ordered also one
connection cable CMB-DS (standard 3m) shall be ordered). Additional to that, the DAU must be
connectedto the 24 VDC power supply that is delivered as a part of the kit and to a Control Panel (=>
any Windows PC with XP SP3 or higher) over a standard USB cable that also is shipped with the kit. A
Software package that is used to control the DAU, extract measured data and to present and store
recorded data to a .txt file is a part of the basic kit package as well. This control software comeswith
the kit on a USB stick.
In figure 1. the parts of the systemare shown together with the connections between them in the
maximal configuration with two sensors.
USB Cable to be connectedto the applied Control Panel
24 VDC, 500 mA Power
Supply DAU - Data
Acquisition Unit
DAU – Data
Acquisition Unit
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Software Installation and Starting Measurements
When installing the Basic Monitoring System software on your control panel, please just follow the
on-screen instructions afterclicking at the setup.exe file found on the USB stick that came with the
kit. When the software is being installed on the control panel, the first configuration screen will look
like this:
Once the installation is complete, you will have to restart the control panel and connect the parts of
the Portable Test Kit as shown in figure 1 to start doing measurements.
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