Lord MicroStrain MB-STD-4, MB-STD-8, MB-STD-4-Euro, MB-STD-8-Euro Quick Start Manual

Motherboard Quick Start Guide

Welcome

Thank you for purchasing the LORD MicroStrain
Systems’
Enclosure and its

Motherboard Multichannel Signal Conditioner

DEMOD-DVRT® or DEMOD-DVRT®-TC

Signal Conditioning Cards.

This guide covers the following products:

Motherboards Signal Conditioner Cards

MB-STD-4 DEMOD-DVRT
MB-STD-8 DEMOD-DVRT-TC
MB-STD-4-EURO
MB-STD-8-EURO

Assembly

The Motherboard itself requires no assembly. It has been previously assembled and tested with
the signal conditioner cards at the factory. It is ready for use out of the box.

Power

The Motherboard is powered by a specialized external power
supply which provides both 5 VDC and 12 VDC to the unit.
Each Motherboard is shipped with this special supply. The
Motherboard has no On/Off switch and the power supply acts
as the switch. The power supply plugs into house current on
the input side and into the 5-pin DIN connector on the rear
panel of the Motherboard on the output side. A keyway
insures proper mating of the male and female DIN connectors.
Power supplies are shipped with either an ‘American’ wall
adapter (ELPAC WM063-1950) or a ‘EURO(pean)’ wall
adapter (ELPAC MED113TT).

LED

The Motherboard has a green LED indicator on its front panel. The LED illuminates when
power is applied.

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Sensing

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Signal Conditioning Card Connectors

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Each DEMOD-DVRT

or DEMOD-DVRT®-TC Signal
Conditioning Card has two connectors. The upper 4-pin LEMO
connector connects to the DVRT

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sensor cable supplied with the
sensor. The lower BNC connector connects to a shielded coaxial
(or other) cable running to your analog data acquisition equipment.

Channels

Motherboards may contain from 1 to 8 signal conditioning cards. These cards are organized
from left to right as channels 0 through 7 and are labeled as such on the front panel. In addition,
you will note that each channel has a colored plastic washer around its LEMO connector. These
color codes are used to correctly match the DVRT

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sensor with the signal conditioning card to

which it has been calibrated.

Calibration

Every DVRT
Each DVRT

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sensor is paired and calibrated at the factory with its own signal conditioner card.

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sensor and signal conditioner card pair is shipped with a Certificate of Calibration

which should be consulted to insure that the pair is always connected and used together.

DVRT

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Installation

LORD manufactures 5 categories of DVRT® Displacement Sensors with several model
variations within each category. The table below will link you to further installation instructions
for each category.

Category Installation Instructions

Microminiature
Subminiature
Microminiature Gauging
Subminiature Gauging
Non-Contact

http://files.microstrain.com/Micro_Sub_DVRT_Quick_Start_Guide.pdf
http://files.microstrain.com/Micro_Sub_DVRT_Quick_Start_Guide.pdf
http://files.microstrain.com/Micro_Sub_Gauging_DVRT_Quick_Start_Guide.pdf
http://files.microstrain.com/Micro_Sub_Gauging_DVRT_Quick_Start_Guide.pdf
http://files.microstrain.com/Non-Contact_DVRT_Quick_Start_Guide.pdf

Congratulations!

You are off and running! LORD Support Engineers are always available by phone, email, web
chat or SKYPE to assist you in any way we can.

LORD Corporation

MicroStrain Sensing Systems

8501-0045 rev 000 Williston, VT 05495 USA fax: [phone]
Copyright © 2013 LORD Corporation

MicroStrain

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and DVRT® are trademarks of LORD Corporation.

459 Hurricane Lane, Unit 102 ph: 800-449-3878

www.microstrain.com [e-mail]

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