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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: Tachometers
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:43:57 GMT
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- In article <727805456snz@harrier.demon.co.uk> bob@harrier.demon.co.uk writes:
- >
- >>Actually, regarding calibrating to an electric light wouldn't that be
- >>1800 rpm for a two blade prop or 1200 for a three blader?
- >>
- >>Also, you would need a fluorescent light or some other light that
- >>flickers more than an incandescent light.
- >>
- >>Just a thought...
- >
- >>Wrrooonnngggggggg... An incandescant lamp running on 50 Hz mains actually
- >flashes 100 times/sec. The sine-wave goes both posative and negative peaks
- >in ecah cycle, ie 100 flashes/sec. Multilpy by 60, gives 6000 flashes per
- >minute.. So on the two blade setting it should read 300 ( 3000rpm ) and on
- >three blade 200...
- >
- >I guess your side of the pond where you run at 60Hz it would read 360 and 240.
- >
- >I'm not an expert on flourescant lights, (or much else really) :-) but they
- >run via some really high voltage gizmo which makes the gas in the tube
- >flouresce constantly....
-
- Hmmm
-
- I think this is backwards. The filament of an incandescent lamp
- doesn't have enough time to cool down enough between cycles, so
- it should glow steadily. A fluorescent lamp, however, relies on
- the flow of electrons through a mercury vapor through the tube,
- and this can respond faster to the cycles of AC.
-
- Whether they flash 60x per second or 120x per second I don't know.
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