Our electronics laboratory is fully equipped with scopes, signal generators, power quality instruments, DC power supplies and a full suite of device programming tools. This group designs and builds custom circuit boards along with microprocessor firmware suitable to each application. Our data acquisition tools include both high-speed and multi-channel (temperature, analog in/out) DAC systems. Most data collection activities involve the implementation and use of a LabVIEW data display and control system.
For many of our programs we design and build custom instrumentation to meet our clients' needs. We have designed and built steam supply systems that can be set up to provide either high pressure or low pressure steam flow to test devices. Yankee has also developed both an orbital and a linear tribometer for evaluating sliding sealing surface wear characteristics in high temperature and pressure environments.
