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Dytran Instruments, Inc. 21592 Marilla St. Chatsworth, CA 91311 Phone: (818) 700-7818 Website

www.dytran.com

 email: info@dytran.com 

 

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The Dytran 4600A1 VibraCorder is a miniature multi-channel datalogger designed for use with IEPE 
sensors. The 4600A1 is designed to provide conditioned IEPE power to external sensors and record 
data from these sensors for up to 15 hours. The included software allows the user to configure the 
dataloggers acquisition settings and to view recorded data from the internal SD card. The 4600A1 
utilizes a unique optical synchronization method that allows multiple units to record simultaneously 
when stacked on top of each other.  

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Device Features 

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System components: 

4600A1 vibration recorder 
MicroSD card (Micro SDHC “SanDisk Extreme” with 32Gbytes data space is recommended) 
Software Toolkit (stored on supplied Micro SDHC) 

-4600A1 is powered by a 3.7V rechargeable Li-Po battery. 

-Micro USB charging, time setting, and Device information access. 

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Software Features 

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Immediate data retrieval from the SD card to the PC 

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Easy cursor operation for data selection, zoom, and cursor alignment 

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One press of a button snapshot  

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Data overlay 

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Filtering 

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Oversampling 

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Time Synchronous Averaging 

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FFT analysis 

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Data export 

III.

 

Acronyms used in this manual 

GUI - Graphical User Interface 

FFT - Fast Fourier Transform 

JPG - Joint Photographic File format 

ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange 

TDMS - Technical Data Management Solution (Binary and ASCII file saving option for smaller file sizes 

with stored header information) 

UFF58 - Universal File Format 58 (purely binary file format for data recording) 

MAT - MATLAB® Compatible data file 

Summary of Contents for VibraCorder 4600A1

Page 1: ...r a n s d u c e r s a n d S y s t e m s 21592 Marilla St Chatsworth CA 91311 Phone 818 700 7818 www dytran com e mail info dytran com OG4600A1 REV A 05 24 2022 ECN 16050 OPERATING GUIDE 4600A1 IEPE VI...

Page 2: ...e Features 3 III Acronyms used in this manual 3 IV Minimum System Requirements 4 V Installation 4 VI Operation 5 VII Mechanical configuration and mounting 11 VIII Data recording considerations 12 IX S...

Page 3: ...roSD card Micro SDHC SanDisk Extreme with 32Gbytes data space is recommended Software Toolkit stored on supplied Micro SDHC 4600A1 is powered by a 3 7V rechargeable Li Po battery Micro USB charging ti...

Page 4: ...esktop or a Laptop x86 based personal computer Operating System Windows 7 8 10 32 bit CPU Intel i3 or better RAM 1 GB Hard Disk space 1 GB USB 2 0 Display Resolution 1280 780 V Installation 1 Run setu...

Page 5: ...ftware 3 Create configuration file this tab allows the creation of the configuration file for the data acquisition select the 4600A tab to enter the 4600A software When the software background is oran...

Page 6: ...riggering level to or if Any is selected the device will trigger if any of the channels cross the threshold Figure 4 Trigger channel selection selection allows the recording to start on a user selecte...

Page 7: ...ull file name contains 8 characters The first 4 are user selected if nothing is selected the generic word TEST is used The last 4 characters are the file counter 000 followed by extension TXT In this...

Page 8: ...TUS LED will turn orange 5 2 Press RECORD button to stop recording The file with the acceleration data shall be closed the device will select next available file name and the device will return to the...

Page 9: ...create a new one This feature allows data split between two files to be combined When Append is selected the new trace will be added at the end of the old trace When New is selected all the previousl...

Page 10: ...Same data set before and after oversampling with 32 000Hz frequency 7 6 TIME SYNCHRONOUS AVERAGE button shall perform time domain averaging on the set of data using a user entered RPM value The data...

Page 11: ...a to conventional file formats csv mat tdms uff and sqlite 8 1 User shall define the location of the file on the PC using the explorer 8 2 If EXPORT ALL RAW DATA is checked the software will export al...

Page 12: ...it reaches TEST 999 txt or the battery runs out In case the battery runs out earlier than TEST 999 txt file name is reached the VibraCorder will close the current acquisition file and shut itself dow...

Page 13: ...utton on the device while it s powered off and press the Power button 6 Once the user releases the Record button the terminal shall show the following menu Figure 13 Serial baud rate settings By follo...

Page 14: ...ed into Synchronous time on two or more MicroSD card the cards must be inserted into the devices intended to be synchronized and the steps outlined above must be performed on each device up until step...

Page 15: ...erence in internal oscillator characteristics the number of samples will drift apart with time To assure the simultaneous sampling the synchronization technique must be used To do that one of the unit...

Page 16: ...it will work exactly like the synchronization cable technique described above However when using optical synchronization for the simultaneous sampling one must remember that the optical simulations s...

Page 17: ...ture Figure 14 File structure The first 12 bytes of the header are reserved and shall be disregarded Bytes 12 thru 15 contain 4 user selectable characters for the file name Byte 16 contains Sampling r...

Page 18: ...and sensitivity information Master 0 Slave 1 selector used to designate master versus slave operation mode when used synchronously when SYNCH byte is set to 1 When SYNCH selector is at 0 the MASTER SL...

Page 19: ...ser may rent or lease the Software Neither the Software Licensee nor any Licensed User may modify reverse engineer decompile or disassemble the Software DISCLAIMER BY USING THE SOFTWARE YOU EXPRESSLY...

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