Turbomachinery
vibration monitoring
FREEDOM TO INVENT INCLUDED
Blades are like
snowflakes,
no two are alike...
Except they’re large, metallic, and can fail catastrophically.
Study each blade individually.
GETTING INVENTIVE
Tutorials, datasets, and code using Python.
Free. Forever.
GETTING FAST
Most people:
“Mechanical engineers should stay away from creating FPGA-based applications that basically run at lightspeed.”
Us:
“Hold my beer.”
WHAT WE DO
WE CREATE SOLUTIONS FOR TURBOMACHINERY BLADE VIBRATION MONITORING.
MOST NOTABLY, WE OFFER THE BLADESIGHT KRAKEN, A DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM THAT’LL KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF.
Bladesight Learning Centre:
A website providing free access to tutorials and code for performing advanced turbomachinery monitoring.
Bladesight Data
Datasets released under the Creative Commons 4 license that newcomers can use to write and test their own algorithms.
Bladesight Kraken X4
A data acquisition system for Blade Tip Timing (BTT).
Bladesight HDL
A source-available language for FPGA programming of the Bladesight Kraken.
Bladesight Python package
An open-source Python package that exposes the code developed in the learning centre.
BLADESIGHT
KRAKEN X4
Data acquisition system for Blade Tip Timing (BTT)
KRAKEN X4 FEATURES
Develop your own FPGA-based applications
Don’t settle for boring vibration monitoring solutions. Use the Kraken and Bladesight HDL to explore FPGA technology. Make your own application for vibration monitoring, nuclear fusion, or surviving the zombie apocalypse (just in case).
Amazing signal conditioning
Scale any signal from 50V to 50 mV to full range.
No signal will ever be too small, big, or fast to measure.
FAST ADCs
4 X 125 MHz at 14-bit resolution.
We serve those who:
Want to become Python Ninjas
Like to know what’s going on under the hood of your results
Find the idea of building blistering fast FPGA-based applications intriguing
Who's behind it
Dawie Diamond is the CEO of Bladesight. Dawie is a mechanical engineer with a PhD from the University of Pretoria.
He has been conducting research and working in the field of Blade Tip Timing for more than 10 years.
Dawie believes that coding engineering solutions from first principles is one of the most profound privileges there are.
Testimonials
“Dawie has been instrumental in our endeavor to establish a comprehensive real time LP blade monitoring capability for our coal fleet.”
Corporate Specialist
Structural Integrity – Eskom Research and Innovation Centre
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Get in touch
send us an email for more details or to request a quote.