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Chapter 4 - Off Route Analysis with the dataPAC
The orders tracking analysis is a measurement technique suitable for variable speed
machines. It can sort out the signal components generated by a variable speed machine.
Orders are essentially harmonics. But unlike harmonics, many interesting components are
non-integer multiples of the first order or machine running speed. When one order of the
interest is measured and the others are excluded, the measurement is called an order track.
You can see the advantages of collecting orders tracking measurements as shown in these
three examples.
Example 1 - A uniform sampling rate for a machine running at constant speed. The
dataPAC does not take a speed measurement. In this case, the data samples have equal time
intervals and the number of samples per cycle is a constant. As shown in the figure above,
10 samples per cycle were captured in every cycle with equal time spacing between the
samples. The frequency spectrum for this sine wave was concentrated in one bin.
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