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XY Recorders

An X-Y recorder records the relationship between two variables by using two self-balancing potentiometers to control the position of a recording pen on two axes, allowing one physical quantity to be plotted against another. Variations include using transducers to measure different physical quantities instead of just voltages. The recorder consists of a pair of servo systems driving the pen on orthogonal axes relative to a stationary chart.

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XY Recorders

An X-Y recorder records the relationship between two variables by using two self-balancing potentiometers to control the position of a recording pen on two axes, allowing one physical quantity to be plotted against another. Variations include using transducers to measure different physical quantities instead of just voltages. The recorder consists of a pair of servo systems driving the pen on orthogonal axes relative to a stationary chart.

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X-Y RECORDERS

A strip chart recorder records the variations of a quantity with respect to time
while X-Y recorder is an instrument which gives a graphic record of the
relationship between two variables.
In strip chart recorders, usually self-balancing potentiometers are used. These
self-balancing potentiometers plot the emf as a function of time. The X-Y recorder,
an emf is plotted as a function of another emf.

This is done by having self-balancing potentiometer control the position of the


rolls while another self-balancing potentiometer controls then position of the
recording pen.
In some XY recorder, one self-balancing potentiometer circuit moves a recording
pen in the X direction while another self-balancing potentiometer circuit moves the
recording pen in the Y direction at right angles to the X directions, while the paper
remains stationary.
They are many variations of XY recorders. The emf, for operation of XY
recorders, may not necessarily measure only voltages. The measured emf may be
the output of a transducer that may measure displacement force, pressure, strain,
light intensity or any other physical quantity. Thus with the help of XY recorders
and appropriate transducers, a physical quantity may be plotted against another
physical quantity.
Hence an XY recorder consists of a pai of serve system, driving a recording pen in
two axes through a proper sliding pen and moving arm arrangement, with reference
to a stationary paper chart.
An signal enters each of the two channels. The signal are attenuated to the inherent
full scale range of the recorder, the signal then passes to a balance circuit where it
is compared with an internal reference voltage.
Source: http://mediatoget.blogspot.in/2012/04/x-y-recorders.html

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