Mantracourt Wireless Instrumentation Enables Race Car Success

As a part of a sponsorship package for the 'École de Technologie Superieure' engineering team from the University of Quebec in Canada, Mantracourt has been providing wireless torque measurement instrumentation and technical support to enable drive shaft torque measurements during testing.

"The Mantracourt amplifiers are used for system characterisation, data analysis and the creation of a performance index," said Patrick Leroux of the ÉTS team. "Mantracourt's sensors and transmitters are helping us in our car comprehension and design, helping us to become better engineers."

UK based Mantracourt is a leading manufacturer of industrial measurement technologies, including strain gauge, temperature, resistance, pressure, voltage, current, potentiometer, rate, flow, LVDT and displacement in either analogue, digital or wireless form.

"We are very proud to be associated with the ÉTS team's success," said Kelly Voysey, Sales and Marketing Manager at Mantracourt. "We consider the Formula SAE a truly excellent competition for student engineers, and we are pleased to have provided the instrumentation and support that they have needed to develop their race car."

The Formula SAE Competition is organised by the Society of Automotive Engineers. Over 90 competing university teams from all over the globe, design, build and test prototype Formula-style racing cars and compete in categories such as Design, Endurance, Fuel Economy, Acceleration, Cost & Manufacturing Analysis.

Mantracourt specialise in miniature high performance electronic products giving high accuracy, performance and speed. Our core product range consists of simple load cell internal amplifiers, analogue signal conditioners, digital indicators, strain gauge digitisers, wireless telemetry systems and USB data acquisition units.

We provide our own reliable brand of innovative radio wireless telemetry system enabling wireless sensors for strain gauge, vibration, load cells, inclination with wireless displays and USB PC input. With options for wireless remote data collection giving email and text alerts plus web based server access. These are offered alongside our load cell amplifiers, analog signal conditioners, digital indicators, strain gauge digital converters and USB data acquisition units with output options including USB, RS232, RS485, 0-10V and 4-20mA.

OEM Suppliers for Weighing ProductsOur product range performs a variety of precision measurement functions for a wide range of industries. Our customer base is founded in the weighing and lifting industries and has expanded into many other industries including automotive, civil engineering,construction, waste management, test and measurement, marine, process engineering, farming, chemical, events and entertainment.

In 2009 Mantracourt was proud to receive the Queen's Award for Enterprise in International Trade, the highest business accolade a UK company can win. The photo above shows Company Director David Wilmington being presented the award along with the dedicated team at Mantracourt.


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