TMC’s low-profile 65 Series Floor Platform Isolation Systems are designed for larger, floor-mounted instruments. These platforms effectively isolate instruments weighing a few hundred to tens of thousands of pounds and do so without the compromises in stability normally encountered when isolating instruments with a high center-of-mass.

Historically, we approached the problem of a tall, top-heavy payload by combining our Gimbal Piston™ Air Isolators with “ lifthoods” and a massive floor platform. This lowered the effective system center-of-mass and achieved the required stability.

Increasingly, our floor platforms are configured with our Stacis® Active Piezoelectric Isolators in place of our Gimbal Piston Isolators. The advantages of Stacis over pneumatic isolation include:

• Stacis piezoelectric isolators suffer no ill-effects from tall, top-heavy payloads. There is no danger of gravitational instability.
  
  
• Instruments mounted on floor platforms (typically electron microscopes) are among the most vibration-sensitive tools made. Stacis provides the best vibration isolation commercially available with no low-frequency amplification.
  
  
• Instruments requiring isolation typically incorporate an internal, built-in  vibration isolation system. This system is generally a low-frequency air isolator which, in general, should not be supported by another low-frequency air isolation system. Stacis is compatible with being “stacked” beneath any tool’s internal isolation system.
  
  

The Gimbal Piston Floor Platform is still available and recommended in many applications. We will help you determine whether a Stacis or Gimbal Piston Floor Platform is best for you.

TMC works closely with instrument manufacturers to ensure that our platform design meets the instrument’s footprint, structural, and utility requirements. We have successfully isolated hundreds of different instruments and are often already familiar with the tool requirements. In most instances, you need only provide the tool manufacturer and model for us to recommend a solution.

How to Order

1. Identify the equipment or instrument model and configuration.
2. Confirm the type of floor you have - conventional tiled lab floor, wooden beam and planks, etc.
3. Tell us if the instrument manufacturer has made  a pre-installation site survey of the vibration level. In most cases a standard floor platform will be recommended. We may recommend taking our own site vibration measurements and look at the special conditions involved.

Contact TMC for more information.