HEIGHT GAP OF INKJET PRINTERS
Industry Consumer Electronics Applications Height Gap Of Inkjet Printers Measurement Type Positioning Description Introduction: Inkjet printers require a certain distance between the inkjet print head and the paper. If the distance is set incorrectly, the printed images get blurry. Current state of the art printers have the print head nozzles built right into the bottom of the ink reservoir (B) as shown below. When the ink cartridge is installed in the printer, the inkjet nozzles (made out of silicon) essentially become a grounded target through the connections shown at [...]
NUCLEAR HEAT EXCHANGER VIBRATION
Power plants, particularly nuclear power plants, require heat exchangers to cool down the primary working fluid for the power plant. Excessive vibration can lead to cracking and premature failure of the heat exchanger. Problem: A major power plant company approached MTI looking for a sensor that could measure vibration of a heat exchanger assembly that was immersed under water. Additionally, the water could reach 250 F and up to 220 PSI; the probe had to be sealed with a gland at a bulkhead feed through area. Solution: MTI developed a special fiber optic probe based on the MTI-2125H probe configuration. The [...]
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Visit and View "GaGe Digitizer" on Google Scholar Visit and View "GaGe Applied Technologies" on Google Scholar Google Scholar is a dedicated search site for scholarly literature that includes academic research papers, technical articles, patents, and more. Use the above links to review results of all articles in which GaGe products and services have been cited for various applications in fields such as: Wideband Signal Analysis RADAR Design and Test Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Ultrasonic Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) LIDAR Systems Communications Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) Mass Spectroscopy Ultrasound Imaging Time of Flight (TOF) Life Sciences Particle Physics [...]
Whitepaper: The Future of Cable Testing: Why Intelligent Automation is Replacing Manual Validation GalleryWhitepaper: The Future of Cable Testing: Why Intelligent Automation is Replacing Manual Validation
Brand-Vitrek, Industry-Aerospace, Industry-Automotive, Industry-Cable Test, Industry-Compliance Testing, Industry-Consumer Products, Industry-Electronics, Industry-Government/Military, Industry-Lighting, Industry-Manufacturing, Industry-Medical, New & Press Releases, Whitepapers-Vitrek
Whitepaper: The Future of Cable Testing: Why Intelligent Automation is Replacing Manual Validation
Introduction Cable assemblies are evolving rapidly as products become more compact, more powerful, and more connected. Today’s designs often operate at higher voltages while fitting into smaller packaging envelopes, forcing engineers to balance electrical performance with limited physical space. At the same time, many assemblies now include a greater number of conductors and increasingly combine mixed signal and power paths within a single harness. Environmental demands are also rising. Cable systems may need to withstand vibration, temperature extremes, moisture, chemicals, or continuous motion depending on the application. Alongside these technical requirements, manufacturers face growing expectations for stronger quality documentation [...]
Standardizing Electrical Safety Testing Across Global Aerospace Manufacturing GalleryStandardizing Electrical Safety Testing Across Global Aerospace Manufacturing
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Standardizing Electrical Safety Testing Across Global Aerospace Manufacturing
Introduction Modern aerospace manufacturing demands more than accurate electrical safety testing. As production programs expand across multiple facilities worldwide, manufacturers must ensure every product is tested using identical procedures while maintaining complete traceability and documentation. For one of the world’s leading business jet manufacturers, introducing a newly developed electronic device into global production required a standardized electrical safety testing solution.. The device required dielectric withstand (hipot) and insulation resistance (IR) testing before deployment at manufacturing sites around the world. Because production personnel had limited experience with high-voltage electrical safety testing, the company needed a solution that was easy to [...]
Automating Complex Cable Testing with the Vitrek V10X and 964i GalleryAutomating Complex Cable Testing with the Vitrek V10X and 964i
Application Notes-Vitrek, Brand-Vitrek, Industry-Aerospace, Industry-Automotive, Industry-Cable Test, Industry-Compliance Testing, Industry-Consumer Products, Industry-Electronics, Industry-Government/Military, Industry-Lighting, Industry-Manufacturing, Industry-Medical, Whitepapers-Vitrek
Automating Complex Cable Testing with the Vitrek V10X and 964i
Introduction Cable assemblies are no longer simple pass/fail products. Modern harnesses may contain dozens—or hundreds—of conductors, shielding paths, insulation systems, and termination points. Testing them manually is slow, labor intensive, and prone to inconsistency. The combination of the Vitrek V10X Hipot Tester and Vitrek 964i High Voltage Switching System creates a modern automated platform for validating cable safety and integrity with higher speed and repeatability. The Challenge Manufacturers of advanced cable assemblies are under constant pressure to improve quality while keeping production moving. Many products now use large pin-count connectors and complex multi-conductor designs that require access to numerous [...]
Application Note: Modernizing a Legacy Military Avionics Test System with a Programmable GaGe High-Speed Digitizer
Introduction Across military and aerospace maintenance operations, many proven test systems remain in service decades after their original deployment. These systems often support critical certification procedures, validated workflows, and platform-specific compliance tests that are costly or impractical to replace. While the airframes and missions may evolve, the test infrastructure built around them often remains indispensable. The challenge arises when key instruments inside those systems become obsolete. Aging oscilloscopes, digitizers, controllers, and interface hardware can create maintenance burdens, calibration issues, and long-term support risks. Replacing them is rarely simple. In regulated or mission-critical environments, a modern instrument must not only [...]
Application Note: Improving Optical Measurements Through High-Speed Data Acquisition
Introduction Advances in optical engineering are driving the need for faster, more accurate data acquisition systems. Whether characterizing laser pulses, measuring fiber optic sensors, or analyzing highspeed optical communications, today’s photonics applications generate electrical signals that demand exceptional sampling performance and timing accuracy. While the optical source may be light, the measurement ultimately depends on capturing an electrical waveform produced by a photodiode or other optical detector. Preserving the integrity of that waveform is critical, as lost detail or timing errors can directly affect measurement accuracy, image quality, or system performance. High-speed PCIe digitizers provide the bandwidth, memory depth, [...]
Technology Brief: GaGe Digitizers — Powering the Next Generation of Distributed Fiber Sensing
Introduction An exciting new technology called Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing (DFOS) transforms ordinary communications fiber into a continuous sensing array that extends over kilometers. Communications fiber is designed to minimize optical attenuation and maximize the transmitted optical signal. Nonetheless, a small amount of light is backscattered towards the light source. This backscatter is routinely acquired by Optical Time-Domain Reflectometers (OTDRs) to characterize fiber. Modern communications fiber typically has a very low attenuation of about 0.2 dB/km. DFOS instruments similar to OTDRs are generally called interrogators. Backscatter is divided into two types. Elastic backscatter occurs at the same energy (or, [...]
Application Note: GaGe Digitizers — Configuring GaGe Digitizers for Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing (DFOS)
Introduction Distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) uses optical fiber to measure temperature, strain, or vibration at many locations along its length. By analyzing changes in backscattered light, a DFOS interrogator can monitor conditions across extended assets such as pipelines, bridges, and railway infrastructure. In pulse-based systems, the arrival time of the returned light identifies its position along the fiber, while the optical sensing method determines which physical quantities can be measured. A photodetector converts the returning light into an electrical waveform, which a high-speed digitizer captures for processing. Selecting and configuring the digitizer requires attention to sampling rate, input [...]