SVAN 958 USER MANUAL
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CONTENTS
1 INTRODUCTION 1-1
1.1 SVAN 958 as Sound Level Meter & Analyser 1-1
1.2 SVAN 958 as Vibration Meter & Analyser 1-2
1.3 General features of SVAN 958 1-2
1.4 Accessories included 1-3
1.5 Accessories available 1-3
2 MANUAL CONTROL OF THE INSTRUMENT 2-1
2.1 Control push-buttons on the front panel 2-1
2.2 Input and output sockets of the instrument 2-6
3 SETTING THE INSTRUMENT 3-1
3.1 Basis of the instrument’s control 3-1
3.2 Powering of the instrument 3-25
3.3 Initial setup of the instrument 3-27
3.4 Activation of optional functions 3-32
3.5 Memory organisation 3-33
4 FUNCTIONS OF THE INSTRUMENT - FUNCTION 4-1
4.1 Measurement functions of the instrument - MEASUREMENT FUNCTION 4-1
4.2 Instrument’s calibration - CALIBRATION 4-2
4.2.1 Calibration by the sensitivity introduction 4-2
4.2.2 Calibration by the measurement 4-5
4.2.3 View on the last calibration result - CALIBRATION HISTORY 4-8
5 MEASUREMENT PARAMETERS SETTING - INPUT 5-1
5.1 Selection of measurement parameters - MEASUREMENT SETUP 5-2
5.1.1 Setting time delay before the start of measurements - START DELAY 5-2
5.1.2 Setting integration period - INT. PERIOD 5-3
5.1.3 Setting the number of repetition of measurement cycles - CYCLES NUMBER 5-4
5.1.4 Setting time period between two writings to the logger’s file - LOGGER STEP 5-4
5.2 Setting parameters in channels - CHANNELS SETUP 5-6
5.2.1 Selection of measurement mode for sound or vibration - MODE 5-6
5.2.2 Measurement range setting - RANGE 5-7
5.2.3 Weighting filter selection in a profile - FILTER 5-7
5.2.4 RMS detector selection - DETECTOR 5-9
5.2.5 Setting the parameters of microphone (SM) - MICROPHONE CORRECTION 5-9
5.3 Results selection for saving in a logger’s file - LOGGER SETUP 5-10
5.3.1 Selecting results to be saved in instrument’s logger memory - LOGGER MODE 5-10
5.3.2 Selecting time-history results to be saved in the memory - LOGGER MODE: ON 5-10
5.3.3 Selecting parameters of low sampling rate time-domain signal recording (svn
format) in memory of the instrument - LOGGER MODE: TIME 5-11