On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Morgan Olsson wrote:

> Hi
> I am looking for cheap accelerometers.
> PCB or screw mount.
> One axis.
> Range about 5m/s2.
> Current consumption preferrably max 5mA/5V.
> Preferrably possible to buy in Europe.

5 m/s^2 ~= +/- 0.5 g ?

Apparently National ADXL??? is the address, but what do you mean by cheap,
and do they have to read accurately in static conditions ? There are piezo
accelerometers that do not read out static acceleration, only delta (e.g.
Murata, Tokin etc). These can be used by configuring the system as an
integrator. They drift some so it needs to have a deadband and a zeroing
facility.

hope this helps,

Peter