Prosig Support Blog

The place to come for support for Prosig's DATS, P8000 & PROTOR

Prosig Support Blog - The place to come for support for Prosig's DATS, P8000 & PROTOR

What sensors are required to perform a Rotor Runout Measurement?

The DATS Rotor Runout Measurement package can be used on any shaft where the following probes are available…

  1. A LVDT (Linear Variable Differential Transformer) probe. This is basically a contact probe. This will allow the measurement of the shaft total runout*.
  2. If an electrical runout measurement is also required then an additional eddy current probe (also known as a proximity probe) is needed. This is a non contact probe and can be used in conjunction with the LVDT to measure the electrical runout only.
  3. A once per revolution tachometer is also required. This could be optical, proximity, magnetic and so on.

With these three sensors it is possible using the DATS Rotor Runout Measurement package to find both electrical and mechanical runout.

* Total runout is a composite tolerance including the effects of cylindricity and concentricity, co-axiality, straightness and parallelism along the axis.

How To Choose A Sample Rate For A Required Analysis Frequency Range

The relationship between sample rate and maximum frequency that can be analysed (called bandwidth) is a factor of 0.4. Or to look at it another way the sampling rate is 2.5 times the maximum analysis frequency.

The value of 10,000 Hz is multiplied by 2.5 to allow for an anti-alias filter during the capture of the data. An anti-alias filter is set to 0.4 of the sample rate, thus the bandwidth or frequency content that can be studied is 0.4 of the sample rate.

For example, when looking to study a frequency up to 10,000 Hz what sample rate should be used?

So we multiply by 2.5…
10,000 Hz x 2.5 = 25,000 Hz

So the sample rate should be 25,000 samples per second to allow frequencies of up to 10,000 Hz to be studied.

 

Calibrating an Accelerometer with a Prosig P5000 system

Put the wax on the shaker top. Place the accelerometer in the axis you wish to calibrate with positive up and cable connected to P5000 with the relevant transducer class chosen.

Accelerometer calibration screen

Accelerometer calibration screen

Go to Single Channel Calibration screen.

Click on the Tone tab.

With P5000 armed turn on the shaker and monitor the sine wave on the real-time monitor and check Signal Quality as being GOOD.

With a GOOD sine wave click the Calculate button. It is recommended to click Calculate three times.

Check to see the Sensitivity change from what was originally entered when setting up the channel transducer information to the new calculated value. The calculated value should be close to the original.

DC Cal Offset is for DC level accelerometers.

Requested Excitation is for non IEPE (ICP) accelerometers such as capacitive.

After calculating the new sensitivity click on the Use button to make the change in the Transducer Sensitivity Acquisition Setup file.

NOTE: To achieve a GOOD signal reading place the shaker on a flat surface and avoid touching during operation. Make sure the surface the shaker is sitting on does not come in contact with other sources of vibrations or electrical conductance.