User guide

1 GETTING STARTED

The Veloce System is a high-speed and universal fiber-optic signal conditioning instrument that can be

used to perform relative Strain, Temperature, Force & Load, and Pressure measurements in hostile

locations that were formerly inaccessible with other measuring instruments. The Veloce System is an

expandable instrument that can accept up to eight Veloce plug-in modules. Each Veloce conditioner has a

200 kHz sampling speed. The following sections explain how to operate the Veloce System.

1.1 QUICK START

• Power on the Veloce System (let it heat-up for one hour for optimum performances);

• Plug a fiber optic transducer in the Transducer Input port of the Veloce module;

• Press the reset button;

• Plug the Analog output port to an oscilloscope or to a data acquisition system;

• Read section 6 of this manual to know how to convert the voltage output to a physical value;

• That's it!