Hello. I am taking up Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and my team needs to conduct high speed crash tests using 3038-6000. Could you confirm what external parts (excitation source, caps, amp/ADC, MCU) the 3038-6000 needs to operate, whether a pre-soldered breakout/eval board is available to avoid any fine-pitch assembly, and if each sensor ships with a calibration certificate (plus re-cal interval) so we can log ±6 000 g data with zero extra electronics work?
I am checking on this. Will let you know when I have the answer.
The datasheet would appear to indicate provision of some manner of calibration on page 2:
Considering that the part’s sensitivity is indicated to vary over a 6:1 range, it would seem rather needful.
Interrogation of the sensor would be similar to that of any other based on an unamplified wheatstone bridge; one will require a reasonably well-behaved excitation source to drive the bridge, a data acquisition solution of some type, and possibly some amplification depending on how mismatched the characteristics of the sensor and acquisition systems are.
I do not see an eval board/kit advertised. This is perhaps not too surprising, since when one starts speaking of thousand-g accelerations the mounting and fixturing of the sensor itself is likely to influence measurements. Similarly, one should be mindful of potential for other acceleration-induced effects, such as capacitor-related microphony.
There’s no simple, plug-and-play, zero-effort path to using the part in question; it is a component device rather than a measurement solution, and as such it is up to you to select and apply supporting devices in a manner that is fitting for your particular needs.