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Does anyone know of a cheap system?

Does anyone know of a cheap system?

Does anyone know of a cheap system?

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Does anyone know of a cheap vibration instrument which can take readings, then download to computer for analysis?

JOhn

RE: Does anyone know of a cheap system?

Define "cheap".  <$1000...<$10000?

RE: Does anyone know of a cheap system?

Also define what you are measuring?  What's your freq. range.  Do you need multiple channels?  What's your sensitivity?

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Aercoustics.com

RE: Does anyone know of a cheap system?

If you want to go real cheap, run a microphone cartridge into a soundblaster card.  Use an inexpensive A/D music program like Magix Music studio, to post process the recorded, digitized .wav file.  It just depends on what the intended used of the data will be.  If you want to cover the subsonic or supersonic spectra that will cost a little more.

RE: Does anyone know of a cheap system?

If you REALLY want cheap,  you can still download Cool Edit 96,  which has become complete "freeware" since it's no longer supported or offered by the original developer.
It's got a usable FFT function.

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