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The LE-3D/20s seismometer is designed for low frequency response, making it suitable for regional earthquake seismology and volcanic activity monitoring. It offers advantages such as faster startup time and reduced sensitivity to environmental changes compared to true broadband sensors, although it requires more power. The document provides technical specifications and emphasizes the practicality of this instrument for users with limited resources and time.

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LE-3D-20s

The LE-3D/20s seismometer is designed for low frequency response, making it suitable for regional earthquake seismology and volcanic activity monitoring. It offers advantages such as faster startup time and reduced sensitivity to environmental changes compared to true broadband sensors, although it requires more power. The document provides technical specifications and emphasizes the practicality of this instrument for users with limited resources and time.

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Seismometers
General Description
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The LE-3D/20s model


This is the latest addition to the product line, further boosting low frequency response down to 20
seconds. For those interested in “classical” regional earthquake seismology, or in the low frequency
grumblings of volcanoes, this instrument fills a niche between short period and “real broadband”.
While physically identical to LE-3D/5s (except for the different paint colour), it is a fundamentally
different instrument under the hood. In order to bring a physical 2 Hz electrodynamic geophone to
behave like a 20 sec seismometer (remember those clumsy yet delicate beasts? You barely touched them,
and the mass would shift out of whack!),
considerable electronic wizardry needs to
be applied. To some extent, this comes at
a price – increased power consumption
(but still within very reasonable limits).
However, many of the qualities that
have made Lennartz seismometers the
practitioner’s favourite for more than a
decade are present in this instrument.
Compared to “true broadband” sensors,
the most salient advantages are much
faster startup time (the instrument will
output meaningful results in less than
a minute after power-up!) and drasti-
cally reduced sensitivity to temperature
or pressure fluctuations. Since there is
no physical long-period element inside,
nothing will respond to daily tempera-
ture drift, or to the sudden air draught
of a door being shut.
For the record, if anyone is interested in learning what a “real broadband” installation entails, this
is a very valuable resource of information:
http://www.seismo.berkeley.edu/seismo/bdsn/instrumentation/guidelines.html
If you don’t want to read the whole article, here is one paragraph that sums it up:

☞ “At minimum, it takes 500 man-hours to search, plan, travel, prefabricate, and install a site.
If the distances are great, or construction is complex, the time requirement can easily go to
2000 man-hours. For example, we spent approximately 1500 man-hours on KCC (sited in
an existing tunnel), 2000 man-hours on HOPS (because of vault construction), and we spent
1300 man-hours on FARB (our most inaccessible station).“

Basically, this means that unless you have that kind of time and resources to invest (and who does,
especially in a mobile scenario??), you won’t get anywhere near the full data quality that a broadband
sensor can theoretically deliver. So, the advantages of having a simple, easy to use, quickly up-and-
running instrument may very well compensate for the fact that it isn’t a “true broadband” sensor
on paper.

Lennartz electronic GmbH Bismarckstrasse 136 D-72072 Tübingen Germany


Phone: +49-7071-93550 Fax: +49-7071-935530 [email protected] www.lennartz-electronic.de
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Technical details for the LE-3D/20s seismometer

LE-3D/20s
Power Supply 10…16 V DC, unstabilized
Power Consumption Average 50 mA @ 12 V DC; max.
100 mA (for full scale output)
Output Voltage 1000 V/m/s, precisely adjusted on
all components
Damping 0.707 critical (internal damping;
independent of datalogger input
resistance)
Dimensions 195 mm diameter
165 mm height
Weight 6.5 kg
Temperature Range -15 … +60 °C
Housing Painted alumin(i)um, splash
proof, with level adjustment feet
and water bubble level control
Eigenfrequency 0.05 Hz
Upper Corner Frequency > 40 Hz
RMS Noise @ 1 Hz < 2 nm/s
Dynamic Range (typical) 136 dB
Poles 3 poles:
–0.222 / +0.222j
–0.222 / –0.222j
–0.23 / 0.000j
Zeroes Triple zero at the origin

The “Upper corner frequency” row denotes the frequency up to which the sensors have been tested on a shake table. Users should
be aware that there is an inherent low pass filter in the sensor’s circuitry which will gradually damp away frequencies higher than the
upper corner frequency.

Lennartz electronic GmbH Bismarckstrasse 136 D-72072 Tübingen Germany


Phone: +49-7071-93550 Fax: +49-7071-935530 [email protected] www.lennartz-electronic.de

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