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- From: jahr@hprnd.rose.hp.com (Steve Jahr)
- Subject: Re: Tachometers
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:16:59 GMT
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- Iskandar Taib (ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- Ok... I've got one and I've tried it. In TFM the calibration mode is
- claimed to work on incandescent lights. But it works on both types equally
- well. The way I figure, it is a pretty sensitive bugger. But then
- I suppose it has to be to "see" the prop without any backlighting or
- anything.
-
- Steve Jahr
- jahr@hprnd.rose.hp.com
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