National Instruments Order Analysis Toolset - page 20

Chapter 2 Order Analysis
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Figure 2-3. PC Fan Running at Constant Speed
The bottom plot in Figure 2-3 depicts the tachometer pulses and the signal
from an accelerometer mounted on the PC fan. The plot on the left in
Figure2-3 illustrates a conventional power spectrum based on the fast
Fourier transform (FFT). The upper-right plot in Figure2-3 shows the
frequency-time spectral map computed from the short-time Fourier
transform (STFT) with a 1,024-point Hanning window. Because of the
constant rotational speed of the fan during data acquisition, you can
identify several peaks in both the power spectrum and the frequency-time
spectral map. The peaks indicate different orders and appear in the
frequency-time spectral map as white lines.
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