Effect of the rotation of the Slip-Ring

Random Signal is generated by one DAC of the SpeedGoat.

The signal going out of the DAC is split into two:

• one BNC cable is directly connected to one ADC of the SpeedGoat
• one BNC cable goes two times in the Slip-Ring (from bottom to top and then from top to bottom) and then is connected to one ADC of the SpeedGoat

Two measurements are done.

For each measurement, the measured signals are:

The goal is to determine is the signal is altered when the spindle is rotating.

Here, the rotation speed of the Slip-Ring is set to 1rpm.

We load the data of the z axis of two geophones.

sr_off = load('mat/data_001.mat', 't', 'x1', 'x2');
sr_on  = load('mat/data_002.mat', 't', 'x1', 'x2');

Let's first look at the signal produced by the DAC (figure 1).

figure;
hold on;
plot(sr_on.t,  sr_on.x1);
hold off;
xlabel('Time [s]'); ylabel('Voltage [V]');
xlim([0 10]);

We now look at the difference between the signal directly measured by the ADC and the signal that goes through the slip-ring (figure 2).

figure;
hold on;
plot(sr_on.t,  sr_on.x1 - sr_on.x2,  'DisplayName', 'Slip-Ring - $\omega = 1rpm$');
plot(sr_off.t, sr_off.x1 - sr_off.x2,'DisplayName', 'Slip-Ring off');
hold off;
xlabel('Time [s]'); ylabel('Voltage [V]');
xlim([0 10]);
legend('Location', 'northeast');

Remaining questions:

• Should the measurement be redone using voltage amplifiers?
• Use higher rotation speed and measure for longer periods (to have multiple revolutions) ?