Further features include; two measurement channels, built in web server, camera, GPS and advanced voice and text notes bringing the sophistications normally found in laboratory instrumentation out in the field.
Connect your smartphone, pad with NorVirtual App installed and take full control of the instrument. Add photos and voice notes obtained on your smartphone or pad seamless integrated with markers to your noise data. Nor150 can also be controlled via NorCloud, Nor850 reporting software, NorRemote and NorVirtual for PC . NorConnect is the tool you use to download, view and generate excel reports of your measurements.
The Nor150 Analyser is designed to be expanded and upgradeable to give you a complete measurement tool for years to come. Norsonic’s retrofit policy ensures regular software updates with new features and new options followed by a 3 years warranty.
Selecting the different application is easy using the Application menu appearing after power on.
You may also create own favorite setups indicated as smaller icons in the startup picture.
Nor150 is ideal for all types of environmental noise measurements. Measurements with markers, audio recordings and event triggered pictures are easily made. The large 4.3” display gives you all the necessary information. Up to 60 measurement parameters may be logged simultaneously.
The sophisticated trigger system enables different trigger levels for Day, Evening or Night with event triggers to collect markers, audio recordings and pictures. The data can be displayed remotely on any PC, notepad or smartphone. From the same device, you may change settings or simply check the status of the Nor150.
Features
Nor150 offer four different views. You can customize each view as you like and rotate between the views using the VIEW button.General analyser (environmental) mode has a selection of different display views. Portrait and Landscape. All Portrait views can either be a single or dual type frame.
Available views in Environmental / General mode are:
Sound level meter display, only showing global values
Nor150 view – Level vs time display is a Profile display showing the selected level function versus time, but no global values. – available as portrait in single and dual frame mode.
Nor150 view – Level vs time, but only available as landscape (wide) in single frame mode
Nor150 view – Dual view with L/t and L/f
Level vs frequency display is a Spectrum display and can show spectra for both the on-going time profile and the global results at the same time. Available as portrait in single and dual frame mode.
Nor150 view – Level vs frequency display – wide, only available as landscape (wide) in single frame mode. The graphical display is turned 90 degrees.
Nor150 view – Ln – Combined cumulative and statistical percentage display – only available as single frame display
Nor150 viewLn – Combined cumulative and statistical percentage display. The graphical display is turned 90 degrees
FFT – Displays the FFT spectra
FFT (landscape) Displays the FFT spectra as landscape
Split view with FFT and 1/3 octave. The link cursor feature connects the cursor in FFT and 1/3 octave displays, making it easy to manoeuvre in the frequency domain.
Numerical tables – each graphical display has a numerical table as an alternative. Use the TBL button to switch between graphical and numeral display. The TBL button is assigned to the active window. To produce a picture like the one shown below, first tap the lower display so it is active then use the TBL button to switch the lower display numerically.
Norsonic continue its long-time tradition for creating the state-of-the art building acoustic analysers. The Nor150 is no exception in this respect! It can be used as a manually operated single or dual channel building acoustic analyser, or as a remotely controlled advanced building acoustic frontend for the Nor850 multichannel system.
The Nor150 offers a built-in signal generator for excitation of the source room level measurements or for excitation of the reverberation time measurements. The results are measured in accordance with the ISO 16283 Standard requirements. With additional background level measurement results, the Nor150 has an on-board calculation of the final airborne sound insulation indices DnT and Rw in accordance with ISO 717. Of course, the similar possibility is available for impact sound insulation index Ln,w using a tapping machine such as the Nor277.
The reverberation time excitation may alternatively be based on an impulsive source. In any case, the Nor150 calculates the results for T15, T20 and T30 in parallel.
The Nor150 analyser is seamless integrated with the Nor850 software, either as a remote frontend to the Nor850 Measurement System, or as a manual measurement tool for exporting measurement files to the post processing Nor850 Reporting System.
Features
Building acoustics mode offers application tailored displays to secure a good work flow and control in your project.
Building Acoustics- Upper frame shows Receiving room level with background noise. Running L/t in lower frame to evaluate if unwanted noise appears in the measurement.
Building acoustics – rating view 1, calculated sound insulation together with the single number index
Building acoustics – rating view 2, numerical table to present the single number index along with the spectrum adaption terms.
Building acoustics – rating view 3, all numerical results of the analysis plus a level overview graph.
Building acoustics – rating view 4, background noise vs. receiving room levels
Building acousticss – rating view, The # softkey toggles through specific source positions
Building acoustics – rating view, R’w rating
Building acoustics – RT view
Two sample pictures out of several views offered for RT measurements
Building acoustics – manual adaption of RT time is possible
The Nor150 fitted with sound intensity option and the sound intensity probe kit Nor1290 is a powerful tool for all type of sound intensity measurements. It is designed for easy use in all type of measurement conditions.
The remote control handle using a smartphone as a measurement control and displaying device forms a light weighted and easy to use system, allowing the user to perform all measurements with a single hand operation. The Smartphone communicates via WiFi with the internal web server running in the Nor150. The system may also be used with the sound intensity probe directly attached to the Nor150.
Applications
Features
STIPA mode is easy and intuitive to use. The display is composed of a fixed view with two frames. The upper shows each frequency band, while the lower shows the measured values including a bar graph
STIPA – By selecting the lower part of the display and pressing the TBL button, the two modulation indexes for each of the STIPA-octaves will be displayed
Nor150 basic
Nor150 basic unit includes A, C and Z weighting networks with measurement of Leq, LeqI, LE – sound exposure level, SPL, Lmax, Lmin with parallel detection of Fast, Slow and Impulse time constants, statistical calculation of Ln, and TMAX5. The measurement data is analysed as global values in addition to two parallel time profiles with an adjustable resolution ranging from ms to 2h. All interfaces and voice and text annotation included.
Option packages:
Nor150 Advanced Level option kit (e.g. for ENV) incl. options: 3, 4, 11, 12.
Nor150 Building Acoustic option kit incl. options 3, 7, 8, 9.
Nor150 Consultant package option kit cincl. options 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13.
The internal camera is meant for documentation purpose before or after a measurement. The picture files are stored in the same project files as the measurement it belongs to.
Event triggered pictures requires an external IP camera or camera found on devices such as smart phones or pads. Pictures captures during a measurement is marked as events in the L/t graph and can be view in Nor150 or in NorReview.
The GPS is used for position identification. Later software versions will also support exact time synchronisation. Time synchronisation is especially useful when several Nor150 units are used for capturing the same noise event, such as blast monitoring. The GPS position is stored as a part of the measurement file. It may also be set to be a part of the file name.
This option is not available as retrofit and must be ordered along with the instrument.
Input channel two is located on the left side of the instrument, well protected from dust and moisture by a rubber cover.
The second channel is a standard 7 pin Lemo connector with the same specifications as the main channel. It supports both standard 7 pin lemo preamplifiers as well as IEPE preamplifiers and accelerometers. Included is also SysCheck signal for check of outdoor microphones like the Nor1216 and Nor1217.
This option is not available as retrofit and must be ordered along with the instrument.
1/1 and 1/3 octave filters (0,4 – 20 kHz in 1/3 octave band) including multi-specter functionality in time profile A.
A 3 order analogue high pass filter with a -3 dB point at 3 Hz may be selected to avoid overloading the input circuitry from low frequency noise.
This option extension adds audio recording and marker management to the Nor150. In Nor150 you can replay the recording on the meter itself without any need of transferring the data to a PC. The option 4 adds a sophisticated but easy to use marker management indispensable for every environmental noise assessment tasks. The user can select up to ten makers, add names, colour and associates the marker to an action. The marker can either be a single or a toggle marker. The action can be; enable a reference tone, start a recording, take a picture or set one of the digital outputs found on the 15pin socket. It is easy to add markers on an ongoing measurement. Voice and text notes may in the same way as markers be added to an ongoing measurement. The markers can be moved or deleted. Markers may also be added after a measurement is elapsed.
The Nor 150 also offers six system markers that are automatically inserted in the Level versus time profile. These are; Measurement Pause marker, Measurement continue marker, Audio recording marker, Picture marker, Signal overload marker, Battery low marker, Event trigger marker.
The Nor150 is seamless integrated to the PC program NorReview (Nor1026) to further evaluate and calculate the noise data and to create customized reports.
Features
Sound intensity is a powerful measurement method in situations where traditional methods prove difficult or not feasible. With the new features of the Nor150, sound intensity measurements are significantly easier to accomplish than ever before and may actually be less time-consuming than corresponding sound pressure methods.
Nor150 equipped with the sound intensity option and the Nor1290 probe kit is a powerful tool for all types of sound intensity measurements, from high-precision laboratory conditions to demanding and rough field use.
Thanks to the unique phase correction algorithm, only a 12 mm spacer is necessary to cover the entire frequency range from 25 Hz to 10 kHz. This significantly reduces the time spent in-situ, and allows measurements of highly reactive sound fields.
Sound intensity is especially suitable for sound power measurements of non-movable machinery in industrial environments, measurements of driven machinery, industrial plant exhausts and pipes both indoors and outdoors.
In-situ building acoustics may benefit from the intensity technique, both for transmission loss and sound leakage detection. And for research & development applications, sound intensity provides powerful noise map visualisation.
Applications
Features
Signal generator with sine, white, pink, band passed filtered noise.
Reverberation Time decay and calculation of T20 and T30 based on impulse or noise excitation. Requires option 3. Requires also option 7 if RT shall be based on noise excitation.
Complete Building Acoustic mode with microphone position room averaging in accordance with ISO 16283 as well as sound insulation indices calculated in accordance with ISO 717/1 and /2.
Requires options 3, 7 and 8.
With this option you are able to connect the instrument to Norsonic’s cloud service; NorCloud.
NorCloud is a Norsonic system to collect, display and process sound level data.
When used together with Nor150 sound analyser, you can measure, analyse and report directly from your web browser.
Create projects, assign sound level meters to projects and configure settings such as audio recording, SMS/e-mail alarms and automatic reporting.
Norsonic stores your data safely and conveniently, but you are of course free to download your measurements.
FFT sampling rate is 48 kHz with more than 16000 lines. Upper frequency is 22 kHz. Dynamic zoom from 1 – 64. The FFT calculation and 1/3 octave spectrum works in parallel.
Split view with FFT and 1/3 octave. The link cursor feature connects the cursor in FFT and 1/3 octave displays, making it easy to manoeuvre in the frequency domain.
Ultrasound option including 1/3 octave filters to 40 KHz, 1/1 octave to 31.5 Hz and AU network.
Requires option 5.
STIPA mode is easy and intuitive to use. The display is composed of a fixed view with two frames. The upper shows each frequency band, while the lower shows the measured values including a bar graph.
STIPA – By selecting the lower part of the display and pressing the TBL button, the two modulation indexes for each of the STIPA-octaves will be displayed.
The Nor150 sound and vibration analyser is supplied with ½” preamplifier Nor1209 and the ½” measurement microphone Nor1225.
It conforms to the latest revision of the following National and International standard including amendments, all type 1 / class 1; IEC 61672, IEC 60651, IEC 60804, IEC 61260, DIN 45657, ANSI S1.4, ANSI S1.11, and ANSI S1.43.
Simultaneous measurement of SPL, Leq, LeqI, LMax, LMin, LE, LEI, LPeak, Ln and Tmax5.
Time weighting functions: Fast, Slow and Impulse (Simultaneous).
Spectral weighting functions: A, C and Z – weighting (Simultaneous).
Frequency analysis: 1/1 and 1/3 octave real time filters from 0,4 Hz to 20 kHz.
Statistical calculations: 8 individual adjustable percentiles from L0,1% to L99,9%, The statistical calculations are performed in real time within each frequency band and for each profile period if period length is set longer than 2 minutes. User can select between Fast or Slow time weighting as basis for the statistical calculation.
Overall measurement duration: 1 sec – 7 days. (If set to Repeat or Synchro mode a new measurement will be started automatically, with no time gap between each measurement.).
Time profile A resolution: 5 ms – 24 hours including full frequency spectra. From 1 sec if profile B or Moving is enabled.
Time profile B and Moving resolution: 1s – 24 hours. A, C and Z – no frequency spectra.
Back erase in Pause mode: 0-20 sec free selectable graphical back erase.
12 and 48 kHz sampling rate / 8 , 16 and 24 bits / 0-120 sec pre-trigger.
One range covering 120dB without any range adjustments.
Self noise measured with 1/2” microphone with a nominal sensitivity of 50mv/Pa: 17 dBA.
Maximum RMS level 137 dBA, Maximum Peak level 140 dB PeakC.
The high SPL mode enables measurements up to 194 dB using a suitable 1/4” microphone.
Built in noise generator with Sine, White, Pink and 1/1 and 1/3 octave band passed filtered noise and Impulse noise.
Full on-board support for ISO 9614-2 with intuitive warning indicators and measurement based suggestions for improvements. Fulfils IEC 61043 class 1 requirements.
Dynamic capability Nor150 combined with Nor1290 Sound Intensity probe with 12mm spacer; >18 dB (125 Hz -10 kHz), >13 dB (f ≥40 Hz)
Parallel calculation of T15, T20 and T30 in addition to Tmax for Noise excitation and EDT for impulse excitation.
Sampling rate: 48 kHz.
Frequency resolution: 1.46 Hz or 2.92 Hz (FFT size 8192 or 16384 lines).
Upper frequency: 22kHz
Functions: Auto spectrum, linear averaging.
Acquisition rate: ~700 ms – no overlap.
Display: Dynamic display zoom 1 – to 64 in power-of-two steps.
Time windowing: Hanning
4,3” colour display, ¼ VGA with capacitive touch. Protected by an anti-smudge coated and scratch-proof glass.
Built in GPS.
Built in Camera for annotation before and after a measurement. Support for use of external IP or device cameras for event triggered pictures during a measurement. The event captured pictures are automatically timestamped, transferred to Nor150 and are bundled with the measurement.
Storage modes: Manual, Auto, Repeat and Synchro. Synchro synchronise the start of the next measurement to the next full hour.
Internal memory: 350 MB – not used for measurement storage.
Micro SD card: Up to 64 GB, supports XC and HC standard.
Data can also be stored on an external USB stick.
Data transfer via LAN, USB and high-speed RS232. Supports WLAN and GPRS – 3G/UMTS – 4G/LTE via USB.
Microphone input: Two microphone inputs (Second channel optional). Supports standard 7 pin lemo preamplifiers including SysCheck, Microphone heating, TEDS and IEPE. Polarization voltage: 0, 70 and 200V. Preamplifier voltage is ± 15V. Both channels are connected to the main microphone input in Sound Intensity mode. Channel 2 is multiplexed and replaces the SysCheck feature.
Comment microphone: Via 3 pin mini jack.
AC out, 100mV full scale on 15 pin I/O socket.
3 pin mini jack headphone socket for replay of voice notes, listen to microphone AC signal or replay of audio recordings. Comment microphone for voice notes is connected to same plug.
Signal generator on 15 pin I/O socket with Pink, White, Band-pass filtered, sine and impulse noise.
Rechargeable 3,5Ah Li-Ion batteries with fuel gauge.
External power 10-28Vdc 3-5Watt.
Typical battery lifetime: 8 hours.
Dimensions: 240 x 82 x 39mm (ex. preamplifier and microphone LxWxH)
Weight: 700 g (including preamplifier and microphone)
Chinese fonts must be installed separately if needed.
Copy file to root folder on a USB dongle. See note Installing Nor150 version above.
This service pack is required for Nor150 application 4.0.5410.
Copy file to root folder on a USB dongle. See note Installing Nor150 version above.
Copy file to root folder on a USB dongle. See note Installing Nor150 version above.
This service pack is required for Nor150 application 5.0.4210.
NOTE! You have to upgrade your NorConnect software to v. 5.0.240124 or newer.
Copy file to root folder on a USB dongle. See note Installing Nor150 version above.
Contact distributor regarding price for V5.
Copy Service pack and application package to a USB dongle.
If a new license is needed: Copy License.txt to the same USB dongle (see description above).
Connect the USB dongle to your Nor150 instrument and power the instrument. Follow the instructions in the installation process.
Please Note! Instrument with SW version 1.0 or power controller version 1.0 or lower, needs to be shipped to Norway for upgrade. Version 1.2 will not install on these devices because they need a manual upgrade of the power controller.
License system:
When upgrading from v1.2 or earlier you will need a license key. The license key is a text file License.txt, which is supplied from Norsonic. Please send a request to support@norsonic.com, with the instrument ID (found in SETUP/Instrument/About menu) and the needed options (see attached document) and you will receive an e-mail with the License.txt file.
To activate the license in Nor150, either have the file available at the USB dongle during the installation process, or enter it manually after the installation:
Copy the license file to a USB dongle, go to SETUP/Instrument/About/Licenses and press “Enter license”.
Please note! Instruments sold in France, Austria, Germany, Spain and Switzerland is subjected to use pattern evaluated software only. Users in these countries are requested to contact their local Norsonic representative to get the current type approved version.
Achtung! In Deutschland, Österreich, Spanien und der Schweiz unterliegen Schallmessgeräte einer Bauartzulassung / Baumusterprüfung. Die Firmware des Messgerätes ist Bestandteil dieser Bauartzulassung. Führen Sie daher bitte selber kein Firmware-Update durch, sondern wenden sich bei Interesse / Fragen an Ihren lokalen Norsonic-Vertreter!
Attention ! Les instruments vendus en France, Suisse, Allemagne, Autriche et Espagne doivent être configurés exclusivement avec le logiciel homologué. Dans ces pays, les utilisateurs sont priés de contacter leur représentant local Norsonic pour obtenir la version actuelle approuvée.
Por favor, tenga en cuenta que los instrumentos vendidos en España, Austria, Alemania y Suiza deben usarse exclusivamente con el software evaluado en el examen de modelo. Se sugiere a los usuarios de estos países que contacten con los distribuidores locales para obtener la versión aprobada en la actualidad.
EC 60268-16 (Ed.5.0 2020): Sound system equipment – Part 16: Objective rating of speech intelligibility by speech transmission index.
The CIS-value is calculated from the STI-value as specified in: IEC 60849 (Ed. 2.0 1998-02) Sound systems for emergency purposes. (Withdrawn 2008).
The instrument measures STIPA as specified in Annex B of IEC286-16 by the direct method.
