Wireless Pressure Sensor

Product Code: PS-3203

Description

The Wireless Pressure Sensor allows students to easily collect accurate gas pressure data for a wide range of applications. Included is a 60-cc syringe, tubing, and connectors that facilitate experiments such as Boyle’s Law, measuring pinch-grip strength, measuring hydrostatic pressure in water. Within PASCO’s software, students can easily select their desired units from a list containing kPa, mmHg, inHg, mbar, psi, atm, and torr.

The Teaching Advantage

Measures pressure relative to an internal sealed reference vacuum, which allows the collection of reliable data even when the pressure within a system drops below ambient pressure.


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Typical Applications

  • Measure transpiration rates
  • Measure osmosis and pressure changes inside a model cell
  • Measure rates of enzyme-catalyzed reactions
  • Conduct weather experiments
  • Measure changes in elevation
  • Measure chemical reaction rates
  • Measure respiration rates
  • Conduct airfoil studies
  • Model a human lung.
  • Study Vapor Pressure vs Temperature
  • Add a temp sensor to investigate Gas Laws (Ideal, Charles’, Boyle’s)

Experiments

Perform the following experiments and more with the Wireless Pressure Sensor.
Visit PASCO’s Experiment Library to view all activities for this product.


Features

  • Bluetooth® and USB connectivity with a long-lasting rechargeable battery
  • Logs pressure data directly onto the sensor for long-term experiments for activities that couldn’t be performed using sensors previously.
  • No interface required! Connects directly to your devices via Bluetooth® Smart.
  • Supports common units (kPa, atm, psi, mmHg, or N/m2) for many applications

What’s Included

  • 1x 2 Feet of polyurethane plastic tubing
  • 1x In-Line Tubing Connector
  • 2x Male Barbed Luer Locks
  • 1x Female Barbed Luer Lock
  • 1x 60 cc Syringe
  • 1x Micro USB Cable (PS-3584)
  • 1x #6 one hole rubber stopper

Product Specifications

Range 0-400 kPa (values under 20 kPa may not be reliable)
Resolution 0.1 kPa
Accuracy ±1 kPa
Logging Yes
Max sample rate 1000 Hz
Bluetooth BT 4.0

Battery & Logging

Stored Data Points Memory (Logging) 1 >30,000
Battery – Connected (Data Collection Mode) 2 >30 hr
Battery – Logging (Data Logging Mode) 3 1.5 days
Battery Type Rechargeable LiPo

1 Minimum # of data points with all measurements enabled, actual results depend on enabled measurements.

2 Continuous use in a connected state until battery failure, actual results will depend on sample rate, active measurements, and battery condition.

3 Logging until battery failure, actual results will depend on sample rate, active measurements, and battery condition.

* Normal classroom use is the sensor in active use for 20min/lab for 120 lab periods/yr.


Specifications

 

Range
  • 0-400 kPa
Resolution
  • 0.1 kPa
Accuracy
  • +/- 1 kPa
Battery
  • Rechargeable Lithium-Polymer
Logging
  • Yes
Bluetooth
  • BT 4.0