Customer-built balancing stand from France paired with a Balanset-1A. Milled aluminum frame, cylindrical rotor on two bearing supports, elastic cord drive. Rigid construction limits sensitivity to small unbalance versus soft-bearing designs, but the vibration analysis and correction mass calculation run fine for medium-class rotors.
Soft-bearing stand for turbocharger CHRA balancing — pendulum cradles on chains, pneumatic drive into the turbine wheel, ~2500 rpm working speed. Balanset-1A handles it via three-run method; vibration analysis on the cradles. Watch rpm stability on air drive — ±10–15% per run or the correction masses drift.
Field balancing of the chopper rotor on an SK-5 Niva — a Soviet combine still working on plenty of farms. Two-plane correction with a Balanset-1A, vibration analysis at operating RPM, weights welded in place. No disassembly, done on the machine.
Chopper shaft balancing on an ACROS 595 Plus combine — done in the field, in own bearings. ⚙️
Balanset-1A on a folding table, vibration sensor on a tripod, laser tach on the shaft. Full vibration analysis setup under the machine on the grass.
Heavy steel flails on that drum. Vibration reduced to minimal levels. 📊
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⚙️ EKC Engineering balancing a hydrodynamic brake rotor on a custom soft-bearing stand. Balanset-1A as the measurement system. Two-plane vibration analysis at 3864 RPM.
MEMS accelerometers like ADXL335 use a sub-mm silicon plate to capture it all.
Series continues — balancing stand posts. EKC Engineering: "A milled rotor also needs balancing, it turns out."
⚙️ Two correction planes fully compensate dynamic imbalance of a rigid rotor. Balanset-1A does the vibration analysis here on a compact bench setup 🔧
EKC Engineering's balancing machine build continues (Apr 2021).
Hobby software gave up on them, so they got a Balanset-1A kit. Looks rough, works right — vibration analysis results are stable and predictable ⚙️
New design: steel ribbon suspension instead of bearings. CNC aluminum frame, belt drive. Phase is solid, balancing works 🛠️
Sometimes function beats form.
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EKC Engineering built a soft-bearing balancing stand from scratch for a Wankel rotor. CAD design → CNC aluminum machining → two-plane sensor setup. ⚙️
Clean build. For portable work, a Balanset-1A with vibration analysis sensors does two-plane balancing without a dedicated stand. Different tools, same physics. 🛠️
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Balancing a threshing drum on a Don-1500B combine using a Balanset-1A ⚙️ Two vibration sensors, laptop on a folding table in the field.
Two types of imbalance exist — static (mass center offset) and moment (inertia axis skew). Both show up on long drums like this, so two-plane vibration analysis is the way to go. 🛠️
Portable setup, real measurements, field conditions 📊
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Nikolai Shelkoveno