Sensors and Systems

Rental Quarterly News

The Modal Shop's Sound and Vibration Rental Program is available to help meet critical and immediate term testing needs with a wide range of quality, calibrated equipment. We appreciate your business and interest in the service, and wanted to keep you “in the loop” with some new and noteworthy items. As a reminder, this newsletter will never be sent more than once a quarter.

Some people look forward to a nice summer rain to rest and relax. Some equate it to better fishing or a respite from gardening. Yet still there are those who approach it as yet another time to get some important testing done. With that in mind…

New Sound and Vibration
Rental Selection Guide

The Rental Pricelist has been substantially updated and includes many new featured products, including many new triaxial sensors, a dozen of which are overviewed here. Also new in Rental is the new Larson Davis 821 Series sound meter, and our new large 500 lbf shaker and CubeSat test fixturing kit. The pricelist includes cost per 30-day rental period, but remember that most products are available for periods as short as 7 days for quick testing.

Special on Polytec VibroGo
Laser Vibrometer Rental

Testing a delicate, thin, or small structure where mounting an accelerometer is not possible? Consider using a non-contact laser vibrometer! These systems are also useful for hard-to-reach areas and testing products with high surface temperatures, often without any surface prep. Through 2024, The Modal Shop and Polytec are offering a 50% discount on VibroGo rental to any new user! The VibroGo is truly portable, operating on battery or AC power, with a wide velocity and frequency range, digital and analog outputs, plus displacement and acceleration available

New DAQ Options for Rent

New modular DAQ joins existing solutions we offer from Crystal Instruments, Data Physics and National Instruments, including

• Keyence NR Series for simplified data recording and collection. Ideal for field measurement with on-board conditioning for both ICP^® and charge mode piezoelectric sensors. Also includes software tools to view data and FFTs and have simple exporting for post-analysis
• Hi-Techniques Echelon Series for both ultra high speed measurements to 1 MS/s/ch for pyroshock and ballistics testing as well as high density testing to 100 kS/s/ch for traditional testing
• SYSCOM ROCK provides unattended vibration monitoring and reporting for civil structures, construction, blast monitoring, and more

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