Datum Electronics Ltd - Torque Transducer Solutions

Datum Electronics Limited is a specialist provider of rotary torque and power measurement products and systems. The company offers a standard range and a specialist range that can be tailored to meet the precise requirements of drive shaft and test rig systems.

Datum’s products are currently in use in over 52 countries worldwide in applications within industries including Marine, Defence, Automotive, Wind Energy, Oil and Gas and Heavy Engineering Process Plant.

The sensors and instrumentation offered by Datum have been developed to provide reliable, simple and practical solutions for the measurement of torque and power.

Datum Electronics Products

Datum offer three ranges of torque transducers to measure torques from 1Nm up to 2MNm. The three ranges are:-

Conventional Torque Transducers - Series M420 – The M420 Series is a non-contact, reliable and accurate transducer that provide a range of outputs RS232, RS485, USB, 4-20mA, +/-10Vdc for torques ranging from 0-10Nm up o 0-80,000Nm.

Rotor Stator Torque Transducers – Series RS420 – similar to the M420 range but with no bearing or contact between the rotor and the static signal interface. This transducer series can be supplied in a standard format or designed to fit an existing shaft for torques fro, 0-10Nm up to 0-500,000Nm

Flanged Torque Transducer – Series FF420 – again with the same accuracy and reliability as the M-Series but packaged in a Flange mounted configuration.

Datum Electronics has a Naval and a Commercial Range of Marine Torsionmeter Systems. The Naval system has been tested and qualified to both MIL Specifications and UK DefStan’s.

The Commercial Marine System is the world only modular solution to marine propulsion shaft power measurement and can be used for shafts from 100mm up to 1100mm in diameter.

Datum have develop a kit form shaft power measuring system that enables users to gather data from a wide range of shafts to assess power levels and torque changes. The system provides a Serial output of shaft torque, speed and power that can be logged and displayed on a PC. The installation has been simplified to allow a wide range of technicians to utilise the systems quickly and efficiently on site.

The standard system has an operational battery life of 28 days and the Compact version 30 hours.

Datum produces many specialist variants of its transducers for applications such as Helical Pile Installation Monitoring, Tractor PTO Power Measurement, Winch Monitoring, Mixer Viscosity Measurement and many others.