DPT Sub-System
HS Series DPT Sub-System
Offering the greatest flexibility, the HS Series easily supports any custom configuration of pressure range, output configuration, bandwidth, etc. via a simple software interface where you fully define and implement product features in minutes.
A single device can be customized to support any of 32 pressure ranges from 25 Pa to 15 kPa with many field selectable features. These features can easily be set at the factory without additional programming or hardware changes. In addition, the same platform can be used to create a full-featured DPT or a simple, dedicated pressure transmitter.
Analog interfaces have been added with easy-to-use configuration software to greatly accelerate engineering development efforts while simplifying system calibration testing in manufacturing.
Design your DPT in minutes with the industry’s most flexible platform!
HS Series – Differential Pressure Transmitter Sub-System
FEATURES
- Supports full-featured pressure transmitter
- Up to 12 field selectable DIP Switch functions supported
- Up to 2 push button functions supported
- Factory programmable pressure ranges
- Up to 32 field selectable pressure ranges
- Up to 4 field selectable bandwidths
- Supports bidirectional/unidirectional/asymmetric outputs
- Supports 0-5/0-10/1-5/2-10 Volts outputs
- Very high accuracy ±0.1% of the selected range
- Long-term stability ±0.1% of FSS in the first year
- Integrated 50/60 Hz notch filter
- Temperature Compensated 0°C to 50°C
- Configuration software included
- Hardware reference platforms available
Engineering Design Resources
3D Model & Configurator: HS Series
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Eval Boards & Reference Platform
The HS series evaluation boards and reference platform are more encompassing. The four different evaluation boards have been enhanced to provide a full system environment, with software enabling modification of key parameters and functions to optimize testing. Additionally, the HS series reference platform has been designed as a full production turnkey system that can be taken to manufacturing; hardware and software can be readily adapted to accelerate the definition, design, and deployment of a new generation of DPT systems.
90° Port Adapters
Depending on your product design, you may need the ports facing to the sides instead of the top. Superior offers highly reliable, high-quality adapters that plug into the two ports of our pressure sensors for easy implementation. With these 90° adapters, there is no need to worry about z-height.
90° adapters are available with and without o-rings:
KP-RAR: without o-rings
KP-ROR: with o-rings
Adapters are offered in packages of 50 and 1000.
Recommended NimbleSense Features for HS Series
One HS Series sub-system can support up to 32 different field-selectable pressure ranges from 25 Pa (0.1” H2O) to 15 kPa (60” H2O), with each range being factory-calibrated and optimized to maintain consistent total error band, accuracy, and stability. This alleviates the complexity and complications associated with working with multiple sensors. Utilizing a Multi-Range part streamlines both the design and manufacturing process, eliminating the need for researching, purchasing, and integrating numerous parts.
Implementing the same component in all designs enhances efficiency and ease, and pressure adjustments are conveniently controlled through a single software command. Moreover, Multi-Range provides the added benefit of a singular inventory item, adding value and convenience to manufacturing operations. In summary, the value of Multi-Range is apparent to both design and manufacturing teams alike.
Benefits of Multi-Range Technology include:
- Design flexibility with the ability to adjust pressure range throughout the development cycle
- Simplified product design with one sub-system supporting up to 32 pressure ranges
- Ability to quickly develop product variants at different pressure ranges without changing hardware design
- Greater economies of scale by purchasing larger quantities of the same product
- Reduced manufacturing complexity and costs due to simplified calibration of sensors
- Up to 32x reduction in sensor inventory costs and product obsolescence
- Allows manufacturers to build fewer product variants, significantly lowering working capital requirements and inventory
Superior’s cutting-edge digital filter is a multi-order filter that leverages advanced filtering capabilities at the front end of the sub-system to eradicate critical noise caused by fans, blowers, or other dry air/gas sources before they reach the pressure-sensing sub-system. This is accomplished using the NimbleSense advanced filtering capability, which eliminates sensor-induced mechanical noise before it becomes an error signal that can negatively impact overall system performance. By replacing a competing component in customer deployments, our sensor has produced a more than 10-fold reduction in sensor-induced noise, significantly enhancing the SNR of the sensor output. This improvement is even more substantial in very low-pressure systems.
By incorporating both standard and optional digital filters, this feature offers considerably better noise reduction and eliminates the need to design an external filtering system, leading to more efficient, reliable, and cost-effective products. Our advanced digital filtering is fine-tuned for each application to ensure that mixed sampling noise is well below the noise floor. By eradicating mechanical noise, we maximize the overall performance of the system.
Below is an example of a 4th-order FIR filter that has been specifically designed to eliminate pump noise above 50 Hz, which has an equal magnitude of noise as the signal being monitored. The graphs illustrate the outcome of Superior’s advanced digital filter.
Benefits of the advanced digital filtering technology include:
- Greatly reduced system noise levels by 10x or more, especially important in very low pressure applications. For noise prone systems, an improvement of 100x to 1000x is not unreasonable.
- Eliminate noise sources such as fans and blowers before they reach the pressure sensing sub-system.
- Simplify product design with an integrated approach.
- Speed time to market by not having to design an external filtering system.
Superior’s pressure sensors have an exceptionally low noise floor, which can make it possible to detect power line interference during measurements. However, with the inclusion of an integrated 50Hz/60Hz notch filter, this noise is effectively eliminated. As a result, users are able to maintain the advantage of using a pressure sensor with an ultra-low noise floor, without any external interference. Additionally, the seamless integration of the notch filter into the sensor module ensures that the interference caused by these frequencies is blocked out before it reaches the user’s application. With the notch filter already built into the sensor module, there is no longer any need for engineers to design and implement an external notch filter. As a result, this feature promotes greater system efficiency, reliability, and cost-effectiveness by removing the need for external filters.
Benefits of the integrated 50/60Hz Notch Filter include:
- Eliminate the noise from the power grid and AC devices before it reaches the sensing element
- Simplify product design with an integrated approach
- Speed time to market by not having to design and/or implement an external notch filter
- Lower overall system cost as an external notch filter is no longer required
A pressure switch is a mechanical or electronic device that is activated when a certain pressure threshold or set point is reached. These failsafe response components instruct the system to perform an action if a certain pressure threshold is met.
Types of Pressure Switches
Fixed Pressure Switches
As their name implies, fixed pressure switches have pre-set, non-changeable pressure thresholds that are set by the pressure switch manufacturer. The device maker receives the pressure switch already configured and cannot change values. Examples where fixed pressure switches are common are certain types of medical devices, such as ventilators.
Variable Pressure Switches
With variable pressure switches, the threshold value can be set either by the device maker or dynamically in the field. If it is controlled by the device maker, when they build their product they select certain resistor pairs that control the voltage input that determines the threshold. Once they build the product, the threshold value cannot be changed.
In cases where the threshold can be set in the field, this is typically done via software or a mechanical knob/switch. In this scenario, the pressure switch is usually not implemented as a safety feature. A good example is with air filters – where depending on the system implementation, the threshold value needs to be adjusted to account for any head loss in the flow stream.
Superior’s pressure switch changes state depending on the measured pressure being above or below a certain threshold. This can be used as a fast response failsafe feature for overpressure conditions, and to provide other simplified on/off system feedback. However, unlike other more common pressure switches, the Superior Sensor pressure switch includes three modes for setting threshold pressure, one fixed and two variable:
- Fixed mode: Superior Sensor Technology sets the threshold and provides the ‘ready for use’ configured sensor (with integrated pressure switch) to the device manufacturer.
- Variable mode 1: The device manufacturer can configure and set the proper thresholds at the time of product manufacturing.
- Variable mode 2: Pressure thresholds are field programmable via software, so the pressure switch can be ‘tuned’ after product manufacture depending on the use case.
Benefits of Superior’s integrated pressure switch include:
- Flexibility with 3 modes of operation
- Lower system cost as the need for an external pressure switch is eliminated
- Smaller overall PCB footprint
- Improve the reliability of your product by eliminating external components
- Minimize system power and heat
- Simplify your product design
- Speed your time to market
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HS Series Benefits Summary