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Subject: Re: Tests on folded pendulum instrument
From: Jim ODonnell jimo17@........
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 09:59:37 -0800
Hi Dave- You got my attention- Nice work!- Do you have any records
(seismograms) posted that we can look at?
Jim O'Donnell - UNLV
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 11:57:47 -0500 "David H. Youden"
writes:
> All,
>
> I got a chance yesterday to run some tests on my instrument.
>
> Here's what I did:
>
> I opened the loop and drove the force balance coil directly with a
> HP
> function generator ( Model 3310B). I placed a 1000 ohm resistor in
> series
> with the coil. I took my input signal from across the coil so I had
> a
> sensitivity of 1000 volts/amp. The output was taken at the output of
> the
> cap gauge circuit, after a 2 pole 35 Hz filter that would have been
>
> inconvenient to remove. The output device was a HP 54603B memory
> scope. The
> driven mass is pretty close to 500 grams.
>
> I attempted to take phase and P-P position data at constant
> acceleration
> from 0.1 Hz to 10 Hz while holding the current through the coil at
> 94
> microamps, i. e. 94 millivolts across 1000 ohms. Why that value?
> Because it
> was the maximum that I could use at 0.1 Hz and still maintain
> linearity of
> the cap gauge signal.
>
> Results:
>
> The force balance coil/magnet combination have a transfer function
> of 0.26
> Newtons/Amp.
>
> I lost the signal in the noise at about 6 Hz. Obviously, I could go
> higher
> with a larger input signal.
>
> The phase between acceleration and displacement was less than 20
> degrees
> throughout the range.
>
> The P-P displacement was about 60 nanometers at 6 Hz.
>
> The laws of physics still apply, as the P-P position signal was
> inversely
> proportional to the square of the frequency.
>
> There was no sign of roll-off due to damping from the cap gauge, but
> then
> the amplitudes were pretty low at the higher frequencies.
>
> Comment: My low pass filters are set to roll off at 5 Hz so data
> beyond
> that point is academic.
>
> Dave ...
>
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