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The Lab
Dick Stern
Applied Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University State College, Pennsylvania 16804
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FFT AND SOUND LEVEL METER FOR YOUR SHIRT POCKET
Scantek, Inc. has announced the avail- ability of a palmtop instrument called the RealWave Pocket Analyzer from SV Corporation.
Real-time FFT (0.5 Hz to 1 2.8 kHz)
Sound level meter Z, A, B, C weighting (two simultaneously) I, F, S responses (8 to 134 dB with 50 mV/Pa microphone)
Vibration meter, acceleration, velocity, dis- placement, 0.03 m/s2 to 500 m/s2 with 50 mV/g accelerometer
Amplitude traces
FFT based tachometer
Human vibration measurement (ISO 8041, ISO 6954)
Spectrogram
Waveform recording and playback of record- ed signal
1/1, 1/3, 1/6 octave band analysis
The instrument, based on an HP iPAQ comes in a rugged aluminum case. Available with microphone, accelerometer, and head- phones.
www.scantekinc.com
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