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Transducer Conventions Last Updated: 10/27/2017 |
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This application note provides a set of
conventions to provide order and meaning to how transducers relate to their mounting and
the machine.
Motion Towards A common convention employed in the design and construction of all transducers is that motion towards the transducer will cause a positive signal output. This convention allows the analyst to determine how the rotor or bearing case is moving in relationship to the sensor. This information is vital when determining phase relationships between various sensors and between the rotor and its case.
Bearing Number Machine trains with gear increasers may cause some confusion when the gear is considered. When numbering a gear, continue numbering the bearings along the gear shaft instead of around the gear casing.
X & Y A dual channel oscilloscope allows viewing the output signals from two different sensors simultaneously on a cathode ray tube (CRT). When the oscilloscope is in the XY, or cartesian mode, the center of the screen represents zero output from both sensors. This operational mode is sometimes called orbit mode. As the signal from the horizontal sensor increases (in the positive direction) the dot, or trace on the display moves to the right. An increasing signal in the vertical plane causes the trace to move up on the display. Thus, following standard cartesian notation, the positive X (horizontal) input is to the left of the positive Y (vertical) input.
This requirement stems from the fact that each sensor is designed to measure vibration only along the sensor's axis. If the sensors are not installed at a 90 orientation, one of the sensors will be measuring some of the vibration which is being measured by the other, which can only confuse any analysis. To distinguish one sensor from the other they are labeled X and Y. Determining which is X and which is Y requires using the bearing number convention discussed earlier (viewing the sensors from the driver end) and utilizing standard oscilloscope orientation. Within the 90 orientation the X sensor is located to the left of the Y sensor when the sensors are mounted above the horizontal split line of the bearing. Should the sensors be oriented at a different location on the bearing, simply imagine the sensors located above the horizontal and follow the stated orientation convention. This convention applies regardless of shaft rotation direction.
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