Wind Power
Vibration sensors for monitoring wind turbine health
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Wind turbine operators and maintenance engineers face big pressure to avoid unplanned outages and expensive costs on unscheduled repairs.
Measuring low level vibrations helps to identify problems, provide an early warning of fault conditions, and avoid catastrophic damage.
Reliability engineers are experts at keeping wind turbines operational. They use vibration diagnostics to find the root cause of problems and establish a baseline of wind turbine health.
Vibration monitoring is used to collect operational data for predictive maintenance to identify operational problems and faults in the early stages include
Turbines
Gearbox conditions
Bearings
Main shaft
Tower sway
High voltage (HV) and low frequency sensors are available in permanent mount, compact and top-exit configurations.
They are ideal for wind turbine condition monitoring and predictive maintenance applications.
The HV series sensors for wind turbine applications provide:
- High EMI (electromagnetic interference) resistant
- Monitoring protection up to 6000V
Wilcoxon low frequency sensors feature:
- Clear signals at low vibration levels down to <0.1 Hz
- True high-sensitivity design for greater signal to noise ratio
- Built-in low-pass filter protects against sensor overload
Wilcoxon sensors for wind power applications include the following features:
- Ceramic housing
- Detect both low and high speed vibrations
- Case isolated, ESD protection, reverse wiring protection
Recommended vibration monitoring products for water and wastewater applications:
HV201
Isolated sensor with high EMI resistance
786LF-500
Ultra-low frequency, high sensitivity accelerometer
R6Q & R6QI
IP68 connectors and cable assemblies
787-500
Low-frequency, high output sensor
Junction boxes
NEMA 4X rated industrial enclosure
736T
High sensitivity, High frequency sensor
HV201LF-500
ultra low-frequency isolated sensor with high EMI resistance
