MOMENT WEIGHT SCALES
BASIC MACHINE OPERATING CONCEPT

A turbine blade is mounted on one end of a balance beam  and a counterweight which offsets the moment of the holding fixture ("adapter") is mounted on the other side. The blade is then inserted in the adapter. A force transducer determines the moment.

Most Manufacturers use a knife edge and load cell to measure moment.
This results in poor accuracy and reliability

Machines manufactured by Space Electronics use crossed-web flexure pivots and force restoration technology, resulting in an instrument which is at least 10 times more accurate than other methods and is also more resistant to damage in a production environment. In our scale, a laser detects a shift due to blade moment and a feedback circuit applies an electromagnetic force to counteract the deflection. The current applied is converted to a measurement of force.  Our pivot consists of strips of spring steel which are oriented to create a single center of rotation. We do not use knife edges, because they are not capable of the 0.000,050 inch pivot accuracy required.

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