wiring a pressure transmitter into a NI DAQPad-6015

[andreapretorius]

I need to wire a pressure transmitter (a two wire one) into a NI DAQPad-6015, and then use this pressure transmitter to record pressures in a pipeline.  How do I wire the transmitter into the data logger?  From there, how do I actually log the data?

[Jaime F]

Hi Andrea,


Can you provide me with the specifications for your pressure
transmitter?

[andreapretorius]

Hi
 
It's a S-10, 0 to 40 bar, 4 to 20mA, 10 to 30V DC transmitter. 

[Jaime F]

Hi Andrea,


I looked at this <a href="http://www.riegler.net/PDF_ENG/wika/pe8101e.pdf" target="_blank">Pressure Transmitter</a>
it seems to be a WIKA S-10, I?m not familiar with how a pressure transducer
works but something that I can tell you from the spec sheet is that: seems that
you can have different versions of the sensor 2 wire, 3 wire and current or
voltage output, I would suggest connecting your sensor in a voltage mode since
the other way you will have to add a shunt resistor.


Most of the time those sensor have three wires, red, black
and white, you will set your connection for differential where red goes to AI+,
black to AI- and white to AI GND and taking into account that white is the
ground. As long as you output does not exceed what we spec -/+ 10 volts, <a href="http://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/370969b.pdf" target="_blank">6015</a>


Let me know if it helps