Wow, that was a little like drinking from a fire hose! :)
Who woke you guys up? :)
The more I learn, the less I know. I have no expertise in this subject matter so I rely on others'.
I purchased the embedded DFT, and my objective was to get some corroboration on the result report, and to...
Greg wrote: "For first order I get an amplitude of 0.042V for the second channel"
Need velocity in IPS please.
Greg wrote: "energy correction"
Huh?
Greg wrote: "phase of 1.93 radians"
Close, 1.93rads = 110.5 degrees. I show 113 degrees.
Greg wrote: "Your data is very dirty"...
Sorry. I had hastily edited and shortened this capture file. Now each channel has 2000 correlating samples.
The enigmatic filename, CH13.csv was simply generated by my Tektronix scope (meaning channels 1 & 3).
My embedded algorithm counts complete revolutions in the keyphasor channel and...
Oops. Misunderstood how the upload works. My mistake.
Should be there now.http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=0980ebfa-b9c4-44df-9de6-afa15ec6000b&file=ch13.csv
Greg Locock said "The guts of the maths, if you have phase information, is a two liner from memory."
Hi Greg
I'd like to hear anything you can recall about this.
The data format is an Excel file, one column for the key phasor strobe and one column for the raw accel data.
The 30 degree discrepancy appears to be quite repeatable. I suspect it has to do with the integrated Bessel filter in the MEMS accelerometer used to capture one data set, vs. the ICP...
Hi Walter
We have talked in the past.
Yes this is correct. I have a commercial balancer (which may or not need calibration) with which to compare the results from my embedded algorithm, and the reports are very close, within 30 degrees and 0.02ips, repeatable with real-time acquisition from my...
Rotating machinery, as in airplane propellers and helicopter rotors, determining magnitude of imbalance (velocity) and location of heavy spot (phase).
I have in-flight time-series accelerometer and key-phasor data collected from aircraft.
My embedded DFT is giving me a report as to above...
Forgive my multiple posts but I have been directed to a couple different forums to better answer my question.
I have an embedded DFT that identifies the velocity magnitude and phase of the heavy spot on rotors, from time-series accelerometer and key-phasor data.
I wish to validate and...
I have nearly completed a hand-held device for capturing accelerometer time-series and key phasor data, for generating velocity magnitude and phase report of the "heavy spot" on rotating machinery.
I now need to validate and eventually certify the result from my embedded DFT.
Can someone refer...
Update:
As Retred points out, the low impedance apparently effectively nullifies the noise.
I had acceptable results with two different circuit types: 1. a discrete differential op-amp circuit and
2. an integrated cold-junction compensated chip (MAX6675)
Aside from a gain error induced by...
K-type thermocouples are commonly used for exhaust gas (EGT) and cylinder head (CHT) temperature monitoring in automotive and aviation applications. The sensors are commonly "grounded" at the thermocouple junction, through the screw-in plug (EGT) and spark plug ring (CHT), directly to the engine...
Thanks sms
This is the procedure I have been following, but no joy.
Will persevere.
Kelly Heroes, by the way, is a great movie. Always got a grin at Sutherlands 1950's era beatnik character in a 1940's period piece, however.
thruthefence wrote:
"With some balancers I'm familiar with, working on aircraft, not experimentally, you would make a weight change, & observe the "move line" the weight change caused. If it didn't head right thru the center of the "clock", then you had a process called "correcting the clock...
Tmoose wrote:
"I'm guessing the photo tach reads a rotating shaft surface that you have to prepare with zones of contrasting light/darkness/shiny-ness. One of the transitions is "zero" degrees"
This is correct. A piece of strategically placed reflective tape is used to trip the photo-sensor...
I have a dynamic balancer I borrow from time to time, with which I balance the rotors on my helicopter.
It is a small hand-held self-contained unit to which you attach an accelerometer and a photo tach. After a data acquisition cycle, it will report the velocity of the imbalance and the phase...