Vibration monitoring 1

[MortenA]

What is the difference between a accelerometer and a proximity type vibration monitoring?

And why would you specify a accelerometer type for the anti friction bearing and a proximity for the sleeve bearing?

Is there a (significant) cost difference?

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Morten

 

[dgallagher]

Here is a link to an application note on vibration sensors:

http://www.reliabilitydirect.com/appnotes/cvr.html

Others of interest:

http://www.reliabilitydirect.com/appnotes/reb.html

http://www.reliabilitydirect.com/appnotes/jb.html