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HVAC Leak Detection
HVAC problems often start as sounds: leaking duct seams, noisy valves, fan faults, refrigerant leak indications, and cooling issues around data centers. See how acoustic imaging helps teams locate, verify, repair, and document problems faster.
Learn how to build a repeatable acoustic imaging walkdown for leak detection, PD screening, HVAC troubleshooting, reporting, and repair verification.
Some fans do not sound very loud, yet they may still feel sharp, buzzing, or annoying over time. Others can run continuously without drawing much attention. This difference is not determined by decibels alone. It is also related to frequency distribution, tonal components, loudness, sharpness, roughness, and fluctuation strength. Using fan noise as an example, [...]
Learn how CRYSOUND combines AI listening, acoustic fixtures, OpenTest software, and production data for headphone defect detection at end of line.
When selecting a data acquisition system for acoustics, NVH, and vibration testing, it is not enough to compare sampling rate, ADC resolution, or channel count alone. The evaluation should also consider field deployment, synchronization, power supply, data storage, analysis workflow, and report delivery. This article compares the application boundaries of SonoDAQ + OpenTest and NI [...]
When evaluating the noise of an appliance, a single sound level meter reading only indicates how loud the sound is at one specific measurement location. It does not directly represent the inherent noise emitted by the product itself. This article begins by explaining the difference between sound pressure level and sound power level, clarifying why [...]
The key to a multi-device data acquisition system is not simply the number of channels, but whether all acquired data share the same time base. In applications such as acoustic arrays, sound source localization, NVH analysis, and distributed vibration testing, even a small timing offset can affect phase relationships, time-of-arrival differences, and source localization accuracy. [...]
In motor, headphone, speaker, and complete product testing, anomalous sound is often not a simple sound pressure level issue. Many early defects appear as slight rubbing noise, whistling, buzz, anomalous noise, or changes in spectral details. Traditional electroacoustic testing and manual listening inspection are difficult to keep consistent in large-scale testing. Using TWS earbud AI [...]
When validating quietness for home appliances, fans, precision motors, medical devices, transformers, and consumer electronics, we are not only asking whether a product is "loud" or "quiet." We need to know where the sound comes from, under which operating condition it appears, and in which frequency range it becomes uncomfortable. A quiet product can sometimes [...]
Wind tunnels were originally built to see the flow. Within a controlled test section, engineers direct airflow at a specified velocity over vehicles, wings, UAVs, rotor blades, or scale models. By analyzing pressure distributions, aerodynamic forces and moments, smoke visualization, Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), and balance measurements, they can determine whether flow separation occurs, drag [...]
This guide helps users quickly set up and perform sound power measurement using a hemispherical sound power measurement frame, the SonoDAQ Pro data acquisition front-end unit, and OpenTest. Stage Completion Criteria 1. Frame installation The hexagonal base is stable, the 6 arc tubes are tightened, and the top cover is secured without shaking. 2. Microphone [...]
Using a wired headphone acoustic measurement workflow as an example, this article explains how OpenTest connects to an NI USB-4431 DAQ device and supports a complete acoustic test workflow, from test setup, channel configuration, and signal acquisition to frequency response analysis, distortion analysis, report generation, and sequence-based automation. The workflow helps engineering teams upgrade their [...]
