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

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

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