Manufacturing End-Of-Line Gear-Motor Performance Tester | Ball Systems

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This tester contains two motor test racks. One is a full load motor test rack and the other is a no load motor test rack.

Both test racks include the following:

Hipot/ground bond tester
Power supply and motor driver for motor
NI DAQ/DIO hardware
Custom PC
Custom LabView software to handle DAQ and control
Battery backed UPS for PC
Three fixtures, one per type of motor(locomotion, lifter, and turntable)
Sub-frame in cabinet to hold interchangeable fixtures
Acoustically dampened chamber to isolate motor noise
Hardware/software to measure sound levels of motor
Headphone jack used to listen to motor
Interconnects between fixture and pallet
Door interlock
Bar code reader
E-stop

Full load test rack includes:

Dynamometer and associated dyno controller/transducer
Agilent Frequency counter used to read duty cycle/phase from wheel encoder

No load test rack includes:

Lasers to measure run out/vibration of locomotion motor
Proximity sensors to detect lifter arm position