Random Vibration Control - Random is the most popular type of excitation. Gaussian or non-Gaussian random signals are generated by the Spider controller to create a broadband excitation to the shaker. Feedback control signal meets most stringent requirements defined by aerospace or military testing standards. Input channels can be set as control, monitor, or limit.

Swept Sine Control - Swept Sine Vibration Control provides precise real-time multi-channel control. It provides a spectrally pure and undistorted sine wave and a control dynamic range of up to 100 dB. As many as 512 channels can be enabled for control, notching, or monitoring, while supporting time-data recording.

Multi-Sine Control - Multi-Sine control enables multiple sine tones sweeping simultaneously and ensures that multiple resonant frequencies of the structure can be excited. With multiple sine tone excitation, the required time duration of sine testing can be reduced significantly.

Classical Shock Control - Classical Shock Control provides precise, real-time, multi-channel control and analysis of a transient motion in the time domain. Classical pulse shapes include half-sine, haversine, terminal- peak sawtooth, initial-peak saw tooth, triangle, rectangle, and trapezoid. Applicable Test Standards include MIL-STD-810F/G/H, MIL-STD-202F, ISO 9568 and IEC 60068 (plus user-defined specifications).

Shock Response Spectrum (SRS) Synthesis & Control - The SRS synthesis and control package provides the means to control the measured SRS of the DUT to match a target SRS, the Required Response Spectrum (RRS). The necessary drive time history is synthesized from damped-sine or sine-beat wavelets. Damped Sine Parameters include frequency, amplitude, critical damping factor, and delay. Waveforms may be automatically synthesized from a user-specified SRS reference profile.

The Spider-101i is designed to perform tests subjecting the DUT to simultaneous temperature cycling and variable humidity. The Spider-101i controls both temperature and humidity in a chamber system, which includes external heating/cooling and humidification/dehumidification systems. PTP time synchronization technology and Ethernet connectivity allows all Spider hardware to be accessed and configured as one integrated system.

When vibration control is required along with temperature and humidity control, users are able to conveniently access the parameter and schedule setup between all combined physical quantities from one fully integrated user interface. If a THV (temperature, humidity, vibration) system (chamber + shaker) is equipped with a Spider-101i controller, the controller software allows the addition of a Spider vibration controller and operates the two systems as one while providing an integrated user interface. Users can execute vibration tests such as Random, Sine, Shock, SoR, RoR, and other types together with various cycle settings of temperature and humidity.

• One user interface for setting up run schedules for temperature, humidity, vibration, etc.
• Fully networked allowing users to connect multiple hardware devices through Ethernet which allows one PC to control all devices at the same time
• Ability to extract battery information through a CAN bus and take various actions including emergency shutdown.
• Access and control with one software application
• Data acquisition is accurately time-synchronized
• One combined test report - If test reports are generated separately from several apps, the time clock and schedules will not be coordinated, unlike the integrated test report generated by Crystal Instruments’ EDM THV Software

Combine a Spider vibration controller with a Spider-80SG unit to acquire data from a strain gage or a wide range of sensors. With the help of precision excitation voltage, the Spider-80SG/SGi can support strain gage based sensors, MEMS sensors, IEPE and DC sensors (to name a few) thus expanding the scope of the Spider-80Xi hardware platform to support the synchronized acquisition of a wide range of measurement quantities including Force, Torque, Pressure, Acceleration, Velocity and Displacement. It can be used for strain measurement and many other types of sensors that requires external power.

The Spider hardware platforms (including the Spider-80X/Xi and the Spider-80SG/SGi) share the flexibility of scaling up in channel count and functionality. The Spider-80SG/SGi can combine with any Spider-80Xi device to create a high channel count system with up to 512 channels to perform data acquisition during vibration tests. A dedicated massive storage hard disk (a 250 GB solid-state drive) allows the time signals of all input channels to record at up to 256 kHz/channel. Accurate time synchronization results in excellent phase match in the frequency domain between all channels, either on the same Spider front-end or across different front-ends.

EDM supports the custom-built Crystal Instruments USB CAN adapter as well as the PCAN-USB adapter developed by Peak Systems.

While performing vibration or THV (temperature/humidity/vibration) tests on a battery pack, the accelerometers, temperature, and humidity sensors can measure the external environment of the battery pack. The Battery Management System (BMS) monitors the internal battery pack status and communicates with external components using CAN bus. The integrated CAN bus support allows EDM to monitor the internal and external status of a battery pack and take actions according to pre-defined conditions.

Supports multiple CAN Bus channels and records data simultaneously to a solid-state drive. Expand data storage to 2 TB with the addition of a Spider-NAS.

• EDM Video Monitoring - Closely monitor the UUT status. Share videos during an online meeting. Align video images with recorded signals.
• MQTT Client/Broker Support - The most popular standard for IoT applications. Supports both MQTT and MQTT sparkplug. Provides both broker and server roles. MQTT client may connect to a MQTT server on the Internet.
• Espec Chamber Control Interface - On/Off, set temperatures/humidity, show temperatures/humidity.
• UMS 1200 Chamber Control Interface - On/Off, set temperatures/humidity, show temperatures/humidity.
• Charge Cabinet Control Interface - Show charge cabinet status. Charge or discharge.
• Waterchiller Control Interface - Show status of water chiller. Set temperature.
• Acquire data with Fluke 2638A and LR8400 DAQ system.
• Low voltage source, high voltage source control interface: on/off, set voltage.

EDM Cloud can also be deployed on local servers within an organization’s network. This allows an organization to limit the scope of information exchange and data sharing to users within their network to ensure data security. This feature is useful for monitoring the progress and status of environmental tests with classified information. Visit https://cloud.go-ci.com/ to register and log on.

EDM Cloud allows users to:

• Create email address accounts and invite others to form a team with groups underneath.
• Share tests among members of the same group after configuring the upload parameters in the EDM VCS application.
• Save and share several aspects of the test, including Status, Run Log, and Test Reports.