Predictive mechanical maintenance through vibration measurement of machinery illustrates one common approach to diagnosing and preventing machinery malfunctions, and it is known to employ different types of industrial vibration sensors, such as accelerometers, in conjunction with measuring instrumentation to help pinpoint and ultimately rectify mechanical deficiencies. A full range of accelerometers are available in the marketplace to meet unique applications. Accelerometers generally incorporate internal seismic masses which measure the acceleration of internal forces generated by internal moving parts, and they can be removably or permanently attached to surface mounting regions of machinery and coupled to measuring instrumentation, such as a vibration analyzer, to measure the motion of internal machine parts.