I believe I finally have the N2 gauge working correctly. The wiring is unchanged from its original state and the controller has been recalibrated.
After letting the line pressure drop to 0 PSI as indicated by the analog gauge in the drill-press room, I recorded the number of counts read by the Omega controller. Then I pressurized the line to 80 PSI, again indicated by the analog gauge, and recorded the Omega counts again. I entered these two reference points into the controller (automatically determines the gain and offset from these), then confirmed the readings to agree with the anaog gauge as I varied the line pressure.
The two reference points are:
0 PSI : 13 counts
80 PSI : 972 counts
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[jon, gautam]
In the latest installment in this puzzler: turns out that maybe the trend of the "N2 pressure" channel increasing over the ~3 day timescale it takes a cylinder of N2 to run out is real, and is a feature of the way our two N2 cylinder lines/regulators are setup (for the automatic switching between cylinders when one runs out). In order to test this hypothesis, we'd like to have the line pressure be 0 initially, and then just have 1 cylinder hooked up.
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