Now with Modbus

Monitran has added Modbus to its robust g-mac accelerometer signal conditioning module.

This enables g-mac to be networked and communicate vibration levels to computers and other networked devices, so that it plays a key role in machine protection and process monitoring.

Andy Anthony, operations director, comments: "With vibration levels typically providing the earliest indication of wear in bearings and gears, for example, accelerometers are playing an increasingly important role in condition-based predictive maintenance routines.

Now that our g-mac signal conditioning unit includes Modbus, it is even easier to communicate vibration levels over a network." The module is in a standard DIN format for rail mounting and can accept any standard two-wire accelerometer. In addition to Modbus, there are three analogue outputs.