A1560 SONIC - OEM ULTRASONIC PULSER/RECEIVER FRONT-END UNIT
User manual
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ACOUSTIC
CONTROL
SYSTEMS
5.12 CONNECTOR FOR THE PREVIOUS A1560 UNIT IN A SYNCHRONIZED UNIT CHAIN...................23
5.13 EXTERNAL TRIGGERING DEVICE CONNECTOR ........................................................................................................23
5.14 POWER SUPPLY CONNECTOR...............................................................................................................................................23
5.15 BUILT-IN BATTERY.............................................................................................................................................................................24
6 PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION..................................................................................................................................... 26
6.1 ULTRASONIC TRANSMITTER........................................................................................................................................................26
6.2 RECEIVED SIGNAL CONDITIONING......................................................................................................................................27
6.3 DIGITAL DATA ACQUISITION.......................................................................................................................................................27
6.4 TIME OR POSITION RELATED PULSE GENERATION AND DIGITAL DATA ACQUISITION..........28
6.5 SIGNAL AVERAGING..........................................................................................................................................................................31
7 TROUBLESHOOTING ..................................................................................................................................................32
8 OPENSOURCE CODE................................................................................................................................................ 33
INTRODUCTION
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The A1560 SONIC (hereinaer “A1560”) is a product line of ultrasonic flaw detectors designed for stand-alone and integra-
ted use in laboratory and industrial measurement and testing applications, facilitating ultrasonic data acquisition for different
materials. The instrument possesses an integrated battery and wireless data communication for long-term, stand-alone ope-
ration with a high on-off time ratio. The A1560 can be operated in manual single-shot mode as well as in automatic mode with
internal or external triggering to allow up to 2500 ultrasonic data acquisitions per second.
The main purpose of the A1560 is system integration and customization for a wide range of measurement and inspection
tasks. The user is provided with a soware development kit (SDK) for writing their own soware applications. The included
Mathilda A1560 GUI is a simple soware application that allows the user to become familiar with the instrument settings and
demonstrates the programming routines.
The A1560 series is available in the following configurations:
TABLE 1. AVAILABLE PRODUCTS
Instrument version Frequency Range Transducers
A1560 SONIC-LF 10 kHz – 500 kHz To be operated with DPC and regular low-frequency
piezo-transducers.
A1560 SONIC-HF 400 kHz – 15 MHz Piezo-electric transducers with contact and immersion
coupling.
A1560 SONIC-AIR 10 kHz – 750 kHz Air-coupled piezo-electric transducers. Modifications for
different transducers are available.
