Airframer
Quintus Technologies Quintus Technologies
NewsPress release

Press release

PiezoStar , high temp IEPE, triaxial accelerometer Type 8766A...

12/07/2007

Press releaseIssued by Kistler Instrumente AG.

The Type 8766A... accelerometer uses Kistler's PiezoStar shear element design which provides wide operating frequency range and extremely low sensitivity to temperature changes. The IEPE sensor combines PiezoStar crystals and integral hybrid microelectronics to achieve very low sensitivity variation over the operating temperature range, compared to other sensing element designs. The Kistler shear element technology also ensures high immunity to base strain errors. The accelerometer uses a welded titanium construction for low mass and an industry standard 4-pin connector for reliable measurements and long-term stability especially at higher operating temperatures. The Type 8766A... provides high measurement resolution with over 94 dB of dynamic range.

• PiezoStar sensing element

• M5 option for high temperature: –54 ... 165 °C

• T option for TEDS

• Hermetic, titanium construction

• Frequency response 1 ... 5 KHz (5 %) in each axis

• Very low temperature sensitivity

• Low base strain sensitivity

• 50 % lower mass and volume of the Type 8795

• Conforming to CE

Target applications include product qualification/acceptance testing and aviation/automotive NVH and structural analysis such as automotive under the hood testing as well as subsystem vibration testing for aerospace applications. The hermetic sealing permits operation in harsh, dirty or wet environments. The 8766A... has three 6-32UNC-2B threaded holes for flexible stud mounting on a test object, fully utilizing each mounting side of the cube design. In addition, the three threaded holes provide reliable mounting for calibration of each orthogonal axis.

The industry ledger — an Analytics feature — collects the dated facts behind stories like this one, filterable by theme, company, program, country and date. See a worked example →

In this release

Sectors covered
Your news here

Submit your press releases

Send releases and photographs to news@news.airframer.com — the pick of them reach Bulletin readers every Thursday.

Every Thursday

The Airframer Bulletin

The week’s aerospace manufacturing news, reported by our editors and delivered free to your inbox. Sign up ›

Go deeper

Who supplies whom?

Subscribers see the confirmed supply chain behind every story — complete supplier lists for each aircraft program, sector and company. See the plans ›

Spotted something wrong or out of date on this page? Tell us

Corrections go straight to the editorial team that maintains this directory.