Soft gel stud mounts are ideal for cushioning sensitive measuring equipment from the knocks and vibrations often found in laboratory environments
Lab equipment can encounter a wide variety of everyday vibration and shock from staff footfall or other nearby operating equipment.
This activity can interfere with the operation of any electronics like sensitive measuring devices.
Often electronic components like these were not designed for use in an environment exposed to shock and vibration.
Solutions are often required to reduce shock input and provide a system natural frequency that does not overlap with the equipment's natural frequency. Another common lab problem is high noise levels from operating equipment.
Centrifuges often have a high level of vibration from the drive motor radiated to other components and to the panels of the enclosure cabinet.
Noise levels can be unacceptable and excessive vibration can cause premature failure of the device. Gel-Mec has a range of high damping gel stud mounts which are soft enough to have a low system frequency to reduce vibration. These mounts are much softer than traditional rubber or neoprene sandwich mounts.
They are also soft enough to deflect under shock and cushion knocks and bumps to the tabletop.
A space saving male-blank configuration also allows for secure fixing of the device to the mounting surface.
Where internal parts like the centrifuge motor need isolation, Gel-Mec's highly damped grommets can replace hard metal motor fixings and soft sheet damping can also acoustically line the cabinet enclosure.
The mounts should effectively dissipate the motors vibration energy before it can radiate to other centrifuge components.
The sheet damping reduces both excess noise and vibration from the motor and spinner.
