Any of the belt tension tools will work. Gates provides them or others from your power transmission supplier.
With any of the tools you will need some more info to use the tools. Gates again has a good belt program (Design Flex) to model and get you the information you need.
1. The belt deflection force tool is easy to use. You'll need to calculate the defelction force and deflection distance.
2. The ultrasonic method can work but you'll need to calculate the target belt frequency in N or Hz and need belt mass.
3. Gates also makes a tool called Krikit which measures belt static tension. It wasn't made for synchronous belts and is limited in range but it might work on some.
4. The powerband multiplier method can also work well in certain applications. You'll need the correct length pie tape for this method.
Contact Gates or go to their website to access the Design Flex tool to model your belt drives and get the information. You'll have to purchase a few tools to execute the belt tension per each method.
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Randy Riddell, CMRP, PSAP, CLS
Reliability Manager
Essity
Cherokee AL
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-24-2023 12:52 PM
From: Erem Ugras
Subject: Measuring Timing Belt Tension
Hello all,
Does anyone have any recommendation for an electronic tension meter to measure tension of the belts in the table:
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Type
|
Width [mm]
|
Pulley-to-Pulley Span [mm]
|
Pre-tension [N]
|
Max Tension [N]
|
|
HTD14M
|
85
|
2000
|
7206
|
8383
|
|
HTD8M
|
30
|
2500
|
1886
|
2168
|
|
HTD5M
|
15
|
600
|
319
|
369
|
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Regards,
Erem Ugras
Reliability Engineer
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