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Measuring Vibrations in G Preface: Those directed here for the Quick Vib Estimator will find it in a blue box on the right hand side! Our vibration motors and linear resonant actuators use the unit G to describe their vibration amplitude. It leaves some of our customers with the question exactly what is G? Well, 1 G is equal to the acceleration from gravity:
What we feel as vibrations is simply the object being repeatedly displaced and a very high frequency. But why do we express the vibration amplitude as acceleration (G) instead of a force (N) or the displacement (mm)?
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We measure the vibration amplitude by mounting the motor on a known target mass and reading the results from an accelerometer, see more here. This helps us plot our Typical Performance Characteristics graph. The force of a vibration motor is governed by the equation:
Where is the force, is the mass of the eccentric mass on the motor (not the whole system), eccentricity of the eccentric mass, and is the frequency.
is the
We can see that the vibration force of the motor doesnt take the target mass into consideration. As you can imagine, a much heavier object would require more force to generate the same acceleration as a small and light object. This means when using the same motor on the two objects, the vibration amplitude would feel much smaller in the heavy object - even though the motor has the same force. Another aspect of the motor is the vibration frequency:
The displacement is directly affected by the vibration frequency. Due to the cyclical nature of vibration devices, for every force acting upon the system there is eventually an equal and opposite force. With high frequency vibrations the time between the opposite forces is reduced, which means the system has less time to be displaced. In addition (similar to the force above) heavier objects are displaced less with the same force.
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