Testing device design for validation of synchronization between high speed camera and drop weight test machine

Abstract

High-speed cameras are expanding into science laboratories in many disciplines. For example, they can be used for monitoring of the impact testing course, widely spread in evaluation of materials. Usually, they exhibit a slight delay between the trigger pulse was applied and the recording was started. For many applications, this delay may be critical. The authors of this paper have faced two problems: the need to determine the delay in total and the need to check whether it varies in time or not. Therefore, the hereby described device was designed. It allows measurement of the delay of the camera's start in the range from 1 to 999 ms with the step of 0.1 ms.