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MEASUREMENT OF A MOTOR PERFORMANCE 2
(Measurement of the rotational speed of a motor 4)

Until last time, information about the rotational speed and the condition of a motor has been analyzed from operation sound. The motor was measured with no-load and in the state of the maximum operation. This time, the dynamic characteristics of a motor performance is analyzed. To do this measurement, motor's rotation speed is increased and decreased by changing the operating voltage, and the sound is recorded throughout the operation. 

 
Date 7 Sep. 2002
Place Apartment (Tokyo, Japan)
Microphone SONY ECM-MS957
Personal computer DELL INSPIRON 5000e
OS Windows 2000 Professional
Software for sound reproduction Windows Media Player
Software for measurement and analysis Realtime Analyzer and Sound Analyzer of DSSF3

By using the Sound Analyzer of DSSF3, dynamic characteristics of sound is analyzed with the analysis time of 1 / 100 seconds and the analysis interval of 5 / 1000 seconds. Sound was measured for a slot racing motor (MABUCHI MOTOR FC-130S, DC12V). The same procedure can also be used to measure the motor of the radio control car.

Stabilization power supply. Operation voltage is 12.27 V.

To analyze many data, it is important to record sound at first. Then, the analysis and comparison become easy. The experiment in this page was done as follows. Step by step instruction of the running ACF measurement can be seen here

  1. Sounds were recorded by the digital video camera.
  2. Its voice data was transferred to the PC and saved as a sound file (.wav format).
  3. Wav files were loaded on the Running ACF window and saved to the measurement database. 
  4. Finally, the saved data were analyzed by the Sound Analyzer.

Below is the running ACF of a motor sound that operates by a constant voltage of 12.28 V. 

Click the "Load" button to open the file management menu of the running ACF measurement. If the data is already saved, those data can be seen repeatedly. To save data, click the "Save" button on the main window.

Sound analyzer is started. Saved data are loaded.

Calculation conditions. This time, it was analyzed in running step of 0.005 sec and integration time of 0.01 sec. It means that the data frame of 0.01 s is analyzed in every 0.005 s.

Analysis results were exported as a picture file. The autocorrelation function is displayed in the bottom right. From this graph, we can see the highest peak at 2.2 ms. The rotational speed becomes 1000 / 2.2 * 60 = 27272rpm. The strength of the pitch at this time is about 0.7.

Running ACF measurement of R6 motor. This time, the motor was connected to the stabilization power supply (12.28V). It was started suddenly, and then it was stopped immediately.

Analysis by SA.

It is the graph of the ACF at 0.49 seconds after the rotation began. The peak at 2.95 ms is clearly seen.

It is the graph of the ACF at 0.55 seconds. The peak at 2.49 ms is clearly seen.

It is the ACF at 1.8 s. Now the motor is rotating stationary. The highest rotation of this motor is clearly seen at 2.2 ms.

The fundamental period at 2.2 ms is translated to the rotational speed as 1000 / 2.2 * 60 = 27,272 rpm.

In the table, the fundamental frequency is picked up from the data at the time of starting.

  Time

sec

Fundamental period

ms

Rotational speed

rpm

φ(0) te

ms

φ
R603 0.475   0   41.8  
  0.480     -24.73 8.48  
  0.485 5.70 10526 -20.36 13.13 0.60
10 ms after start (20330rpm) 0.490 2.95 20338 -14.68 4.28 0.55
  0.530 2.80 21428 -5.31 8.9 0.30
  0.545 2.50 23529 -4.59 10.79 0.40
70 ms  (24096rpm) 0.555 2.49 24096 -4.05 8.67 0.55
  0.565 2.40   -3.68 11.34 0.75
0.1 s after start (over 26000rpm) 0.585 2.30 26086 -2.38 11.58 0.80
  0.605 2.25 26666 -2.62 12.76 0.85
R601   2.24 26785      
    2.22 27027     0.80
Max. rotation averaged for 10ms   2.20 27272     0.70

As we can see from the table, this motor reaches for 20,330rpm at 10 ms after start, 26,000rpm at 0.1 sec. The maximum rotation is 27,272rpm.

This time, I measured the dynamic characteristics of a motor by the fine analysis of sound in a step of 5/1000 seconds.

September 2002 by Masatsugu Sakurai


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