tacho Archive
Video: Noise & Vibration From Rotating Machines
Posted on October 4, 2011 | No CommentsThis is complete version of the video illustrating my recent article How To Measure Noise & Vibration In Rotating Machines. This video was previously published on the blog in 3 parts....
How To Analyze Noise & Vibration In Rotating Machines
Posted on August 9, 2011 | 3 CommentsIn this article we will look at the basic steps behind a simple rotating machinery study. We won’t look in great detail at some of the techniques involved – we deal with...
Do Missing Tacho Pulses Mean The End Of The Road For Your Test?
Posted on September 20, 2010 | No CommentsCreating a stable, good quality tacho signal can be one of the hardest parts of analyzing rotating machinery. So what happens if our carefully designed and implemented tacho misses a...
The Intelligent Way To Sort, Extract & Analyze Signals
Posted on May 10, 2010 | 1 CommentThis note is based on a real requirement presented to Prosig by a prospective user. It’s the sort of challenge that we relish. This case is a great example of...
Measurement And Analysis Of Torsional Vibration
Posted on October 17, 2008 | 13 CommentsTorsional vibration is of key importance in the area of vehicle development and refinement. The main contributory source is the engine where periodically occurring combustion cycles cause variation in the...
Vibration Monitoring Phase Measurement And The Tacho Signal
Posted on March 4, 2008 | 5 CommentsAny vibration signal may be analyzed into amplitude and phase as a function of frequency. The phase represents fifty percent of the information so it is most important to measure...
High Pass Filtering And Tacho Signals
Posted on June 6, 2001 | 2 CommentsIt is sometimes necessary to pass a signal through a high pass filter to eliminate low frequency signals. These may arise for instance from whole body vibrations when perhaps our...
