RMS of the FFT or tip?

Hello

I have a sinusoidal signal that oscillates around zero the axis in the negitave and positive. It is to measure the height of the waves on the static water level in a wave tank. I am calculating the FFT but the amplitude is less than the height of the waves in the time domain. Does this mean that I'm the wrong calculation? I don't know wheather I should use the FFT Peak or RMS? I assumed that the amplitude of the FFT should give me the same amplitude as the time domain.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Donners,

It can get complicated, but I suspect that what you see is the result of the frequency of the waves is not not exactly at the frequency of the FFT bins.  For example, suppose that df = 1 Hz. Then each element of the array FFT represents the energy in a "sandbox" a hertz wide centred on the frequencies of the integer.  For a wave with most of his energy to 7.3 Hz TFF likely values not null for trays Hz 7 and 8.  In real systems with noise and light frequency variations, it is not uncomon for data can be spread over 10 or 20 locations. To get the fundamental signal amplitude, you would need to combine the energy in all stores.  Since the FFT produces complex output, the phase component must also be considered. Non-sinusoidal Waveshapes means that part of the energy is in harmonics. A pulse square can have a large enough amplitude, but there's still no broad spectral components.

The short answer is that generally there is no easy way to get a precise correlation between the amplitude of crete in the time domain and the amplitude of spectral components in the field of the freqeuency.

Lynn

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