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Pressure control - pitot tube and sensing options

A project log for COSV - Cam Open Source Ventilator

Roller cam based portable BVM ventilator.

ilkIlk 03/24/2020 at 19:470 Comments

In a Mechanical Ventilator we need to be able to control and vary the pressure and the volume. In the pressure front Daren designed a pitot tube that takes a portion of the airflow that will be used to detect the pressure.

We are considering using some forms of electronic sensors or just using a U tube filled with a liquid to see the difference in an analogue way.

The first 3D prints turned out not leak proof and we are trying to fix that by tweaking the printing parameters.

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