Digital barometers

Digital Barometers and Transducers

Digital barometers measure the barometric pressure and are used in manufacturing, process control, aerospace, geoscience, calibration and a host of other applications where ambient pressure is a factor in the results of tests, adjustments or calibration of components. Mensor barometric transducers provide the highest level of accuracy in critical applications.

What is The Difference Between a Barometric Pressure Transducer and Digital Barometer?

There are slight differences between a barometric pressure transducer and a digital barometer? Barometric pressure transducers work to convert pressure into an electric signal. Digital Barometers measure and display atmospheric barometric pressure as a digital reading on a screen or another interface.

What are the Common Uses of a Digital Barometer?

There are many uses for a digital barometer. They can be used with aircrafts to measure altitude and air pressure, measure air speed at construction sites to ensure worker safety and in marine applications to measure barometic pressure when navigating ships. Digital barometers can even be used in sports such as mountaineering and sailing to measure barometric pressure for safety reasons.

How Do Digital Barometers Work?

Digital barometers have a thin diaphragm exposed to the atmosphere. As the pressure changes, the diaphragm will change as a response. This will cause a change either with the capacitance or resistance of a component within the circuit, which becomes an electircal signal. The signal is processed by the barometer, then calculated and a result is displayed.