What SU stands for

[Michael J. Kupec]

Zack,

Thanks for the correction.  I knew it didn't sound right, but I knew the
last two letters were Displacement Transducer.  As I said, it was about 15
years ago and I knew we used three of them for each control axis - measured
force, velocity and position for each axis and fed the whole mess through a
tube based modulator/demodulator (it was a 1958 designed Singer Link
Simulator). I know they are quite sensitive and they didn't play well with
surrounding magnetic objects - a small screwdriver with a magentic tip would
throw these units off when the magent was too close to the transducers. Had
to use non-metallic tools to lock/unlock their set screws. I know I really
don't miss them anymore!

Michael J. Kupec
mkupec at erols.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Zack <zubenubi at inetport.com>
To: diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu <diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Wednesday, July 08, 1998 10:08 PM
Subject: Re: What SU stands for



> In the aircraft simulator arena - LVDT stands for Low Voltage Displacement
> Transducer -

Not quite... Linear Variable Differential Transformer.  Your
description is more or less correct, though (and that's the important
bit :-)

Zack