Check Resistance Sensor Vibration Probe Bently Nevada

A. According the manual book normal resistance sensor probe plus extension cable is : 7 11 (depending total length of cable)
isconnect !ield "ire to the #$% terminal o! the proximitor and remove miniature co&axial extension cable connector !rom proximitor'
(nsure !emale connector on proximitor and male connector on extension cable are clean'
)easure the resistance bet"een the outer *not the armor braid i! !itted+ conductor and the inner conductor o! the extension cable as this
!igure:
B. ,! resistance is out o! limits disconect the miniature co&axial connection bet"een probe and extension cable' (nsure !emale
connector on extension cable and male connector on probe are clean' )easure the resistance bet"een the outer conductor and the
inner conductor o! the probe'

C. ,! the resistance is out o! limits replace probe "ith a compatible item' ,! resistance is "ithin limits replace extension cable "ith
compatible item
Machine Vibration Measurement - Vibration Sensors
Sensors used to measure vibration come in three basic types: displacement, velocity, and acceleration.
Displacement sensors measure changes in distance between a machines rotating element and its
stationary housing (frame). Displacement sensors come in the form of a probe that threads into a hole
drilled and tapped in the machines frame, just above the surface of a rotating shaft. elocity and
acceleration sensors, by contrast, measure the velocity or acceleration of whatever element the sensor is
attached to, which is usually some e!ternal part of the machine frame
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# design of displacement sensor manufactured by the $ently%&evada corporation uses electromagnetic
eddy current technology to sense the distance between the probe tip and the rotating machine shaft. 'he
sensor itself is an encapsulated coil of wire, energi(ed with high%fre)uency alternating current (#*). 'he
magnetic field produced by the coil induces eddy currents in the metal shaft of the machine, as though the
metal piece were a short%circuited secondary coil of a transformer (with the probes coil as the transformer
primary winding). 'he closer the shaft moves toward the sensor tip, the tighter the magnetic coupling
between the shaft and the sensor coil, and the stronger the eddy currents.
'he high%fre)uency oscillator circuit providing the sensor coils e!citation signal becomes loaded by the
induced eddy currents. 'herefore, the oscillators load becomes a direct indication of how close the probe
tip is to the metal shaft. 'his is not unli+e the operation of a metal detector: measuring the pro!imity of a
wire coil to any metal object by the degree of loading caused by eddy current induction.
,n the $ently%&evada design, the oscillator circuit providing sensor coil e!citation is called a pro!imitor.
'he pro!imitor module is powered by an e!ternal D* power source, and drives the sensor coil through a
coa!ial cable. -ro!imity to the metal shaft is represented by a D* voltage output from the pro!imitor
module, with .// millivolts per mil (" mil 0 "1"/// inch) of motion being the standard calibration.


Since the pro!imitors output voltage is a direct representation of distance between the probes tip and the
shafts surface, a 2)uiet3 signal (no vibration) will be a pure D* voltage. 'he probe is adjusted by a
technician such that this )uiescent voltage will lie between the pro!imitors output voltage range limits.
#ny vibration of the shaft will cause the pro!imitors output voltage to vary in precise step. # shaft
vibration of .4.56 7(, for instance, will cause the pro!imitor output signal to be a .4.56 7( waveform
superimposed on the D* 2bias3 voltage set by the initial probe1shaft gap.
#n oscilloscope connected to this output signal will show a direct representation of shaft vibration, as
measured in the a!is of the probe. ,n fact, any electronic test e)uipment capable of analy(ing the voltage
signal output by the pro!imitor may be used to analy(e the machines vibration: oscilloscopes, spectrum
analy(ers, pea+%indicating voltmeters, 89S%indicating voltmeters, etc. ,t is customary to arrange a set of
three displacement probes at the end of a machine shaft to measure vibration: two radial probes and one
a!ial (or thrust) probe. 'he purpose of this tria!ial probe configuration is to measure shaft vibration (and1or
shaft displacement) in all three dimensions:


-hotographs of a $ently%&evada displacement sensor (sensing a!ial vibration on a 2ring3 style air
compressor) and two pro!imitor modules are shown here:


,t is also common to see one phase reference probe installed on the machine shaft, positioned in such a
way that it detects the periodic passing of a +eyway or other irregular feature on the shaft. 'he
2+eyphasor3 signal will consist of one large pulse per revolution:

'he purpose of a +eyphasor signal is two%fold: to provide a reference point in the machines rotation to
correlate other vibration signals against, and to provide a simple means of measuring shaft speed. 'he
location in time of the pulse represents shaft position, while the fre)uency of that pulse signal represents
shaft speed.
:or instance, if one of the radial displacement sensors indicates a high vibration at the same fre)uency as
the shaft rotation (i.e. the shaft is bowed in one direction, li+e a banana spinning on its long a!is), the
phase shift between the vibrations sinusoidal pea+ and the phase reference pulse will indicate to
maintenance machinists where the machine is out of balance. 'his is not unli+e automatic tire%balancing
machines designed to measure imbalance in automobile tire and wheel assemblies: the machine must
have some way of indicating to the human operator where a balancing weight should be placed, not just
how far out of balance the tire is. ,n the case of machine vibration monitoring e)uipment, the +eyphasor
signal and one of the a!ial displacement signals may be simultaneously plotted on a dual%trace
oscilloscope for the purposes of determining the position of the imbalance on the machine shaft.

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:rom the perspective of measurement, it would be ideal to affi! a velocimeter or accelerometer sensor directly to the rotating
element of the machine, but this leads to the problem of electrically connecting the (now rotating;) sensor to stationary analysis
e)uipment. <nless the velocity or acceleration sensor is wireless, the only practical mounting location is on the stationary frame of
the machine.