I wasn't the point man on the balancer quote. I believe it was the
personal balancer which is much cheaper. The Micro Vib does look like a much
more capable unit. I have used the Micro Vib with a tech looking on. Simple
system to use. I have no idea about support, they were trying to sell us a
system and were pretty eager.
Bill Jepson
Hi
Bill,
I did get a quote
from DSS today, and also talked to them about the personal balancer.
They seemed fine to deal with, so maybe it was just me
yesterday.
Anyway, the
personal balancer is a no frills unit, that only gives you amplitude, and
phase. You have to do all your own calculations as far as how
much weight to put on, etc. The unit, with no sensors or cables
is $1795, and the normal kit they sell is $2885, but includes two
accelerometers, cables, etc. I can easily see how you were trimming
this down to about $2400.
While not fancy,
it will do what you need it to do, but there is an rpm limit of 4800, so you
can't balance any engine parts above that.
I also exchanged
a couple more emails with ACES, and found that they have a 2015 unit, that
goes for about $3900 in a kit. The unit can only acquire data from one
channel at a time, though it is a two channel unit. It and the 2020
both come with only one accelerometer in the kit though. They
originally quoted the 2020 because I had mentioned it would be nice to do
helo blades if necessary. They did say that you could do rotor blades
with the 2015, but it wasn't as convenient.
I plan to call
the ACES guy tomorrow, and decide what to do (if anything) from
there.
Thanks,
Rusty