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Itty Bitty Sensors Play Big Roles in Wind Turbines

On September 20, 2017 in All, IoT, Sensors by Mouser Staff

Wind turbines often have more than 8,000 components, including rotors more than 80m long and towers more than 180m high. Despite their mammoth size, wind turbines rely on sensors just centimeters long to keep these leviathans functioning despite extraordinary stresses, vibration, and other hazards.

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Tagged With: accelerometers, capacitive displacement sensors, displacement sensors, eddy-current sensors, laser displacement sensors, sensors, temperature sensors, ultrasonic wind sensors, vibration sensors, wind turbines

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