{"id":3346,"date":"2015-02-25T22:25:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T06:25:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-10-21T14:04:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T21:04:05","slug":"3346","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/3346","title":{"rendered":"How do I get my structures and materials tester displacement sensor to work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"\/product\/vernier-structures-materials-tester\/\">Vernier Structures &amp; Materials Tester<\/a> (<nobr>VSMT<\/nobr>) displacement sensor is not automatically recognized by our software. You can manually set up the sensor in Logger <em>Pro <\/em>and the LabQuest app by the following methods:<br \/>1) Logger <i>Pro<\/i> &#8211; Click on Experiment &gt; Set Up Sensors and click on the digital port to which the sensor is connected. In the drop-down list select VSMT Displacement.<br \/>2) LabQuest App &#8211; From the Meter screen tap on Sensor Setup. Tap on the digital port to which the sensor is connected. In the drop-down list select VSMT Displacement. Note: you must scroll down the list to find this sensor. It is at the very bottom.<\/p>\n<p>Graphical Analysis does not have the capability to allow you to specify a sensor. Therefore, the displacement sensor of the <a href=\"\/product\/vernier-structures-materials-tester\/\">Vernier Structures &amp; Materials Tester<\/a> (<nobr>VSMT<\/nobr>) is not available when using this software. The force sensor is automatically recognized and fully functional within Graphical Analysis.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED ARTICLES<br \/><a href=\"\/til\/3344\/\">Vernier Structures & Materials Tester (VSMT) Troubleshooting and FAQs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/manuals\/VSMT\">Specifications and User Guide<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RELATED VERNIER PRODUCTS<br \/><a href=\"\/product\/go-direct-structures-and-materials-tester\/\">Go Direct<sup>&reg;<\/sup> Structures &amp; Materials Tester<\/a> (<nobr>GDX-VSMT<\/nobr>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The displacement sensor is not automatically recognized by our software. You can manually set up the sensor in Logger Pro and the LabQuest app by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1526,456,523,5670,5672,5671,464,5675,460],"class_list":["post-3346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-beam","tag-bridge","tag-experiment-file","tag-godzilla","tag-strain","tag-stress","tag-structure","tag-truss","tag-vsmt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}