Frequency can be defined as how often an event occurs per unit of time. A vibration spectrum is displayed as a horizontal and vertical plot (X and Y). The horizontal (X) axis is the frequency axis and shows a representation of how often an event occurs. Typically, the vibration analyst may use multiple units of [...]
The following situation occurred at a Municipal Power Plant. During a planned outage, the on-site team was utilizing a Rotalign Pro with Boralign to assess the position of the bearing bores after removal of the rotor on an Allis Chalmers power generation steam turbine. The results were varying far more than normal and the customer [...]
LUDECA, INC. introduces VIBXPERT II, the latest addition to the PRUEFTECHNIK family of portable route-based vibration data collectors. VIBXPERT II is rugged and lightweight —weighing only 2-1/2 pounds! It combines the advantages of a rapid processor with a brilliant energy-efficient color VGA display. Enhanced with an Fmax of 51KHz and up to 102,400 Lines of [...]
How fast is the data collection speed of your vibration data collector? You may feel that this is not an important characteristic. Does it really matter if a data collector is one or two seconds faster acquiring data versus another? Data collection speed is very important and should be taken into consideration by your facility management and [...]
