How does the communication between instruments and gauges (in cars/planes/ships etc.) work?
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This is a broad one, as there’s many different configurations; you can use electricity, liquids or gases to transmit information to analog (dials) or digital (lights, LCDs, etc. ) displays.
Think of one of these systems like inflating your tire with a manual pump; you add pressure to the system by pumping, the pressure is transmitted through a hose, and the pressure inflates the tire.
There’s something that measures something (a sensor), it translates this into a signal (pressure, voltage, or current), the signal is transmitted through a conductor (pipe or cable), and the signal is translated into a display that we can read.
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