It's all in the 'crystals'

California-based Crystal Instruments manufactures systems and software for machine monitoring, dynamic measurement and vibration and acoustic testing. The company’s products are widely used for machine diagnosis, design verification, product testing and process improvement by manufacturers of all types of electronic and mechanical products.

In the automotive market, for example, Crystal Instruments’ solutions can be used by NVH Engineers who use them as part of in-vehicle data recording and analysis, dynamometer testing and chassis tuning, drive-line balance and stability tests, pass-by acoustic monitoring, component shake and durability testing and transport simulation with time waveform replication.

For aerospace, the products are aimed at ground vibration tests, wind tunnel dynamic studies, flight stress and vibration recording, engine durability testing, launch and separation simulation and Sine, RSTD, Random and SoR.

Amongst the Crystal Instruments’ products being offered by AcSoft is the latest Spider series of dynamic signal analysers. The Spider-20 is just 125 x 100mm and 510 grams.

The four input channel Spider-20, with one output and one tachometer channel, boasts built-in wireless connectivity, six hours of battery power, and iPad compatibility with Crystal’s EDM app for iOS, which is included in each sale.