Tapio, there's one thing that puzzles me - isn't the display on the scale
facing up ? If so, how will you read it while winding ?
Having asked that maybe the secret lies in your having taken the scale
apart for the strain guage ?
LeRoy Cordes
in Downstate Illinois
In God We Trust
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:33:12 +0300 Tapio Linkosalo
<tapio.linkosalo_at_iki.fi> writes:
> Mark F1diddler wrote:
> > <rbharlan_at_...> wrote:
> > d It is far easier to read a needle moving against a lined scale
> than it
> > is to interpret a bunch of numbers racing by.
> >
> > Ray, that's my conclusion too, but didn't want to be a wet blanket
> (this
> > time.) Also, regular torque meters are pretty rugged (and need to
> be)on
> > my sometimes panic-stricten indoor contest table. My digital
> scale, not
> > so rugged.
>
> Even though I'm still in the process of building the first digital
> torque meter, I can already see a couple of advantages.
>
> First, it is a "one size fits all" -approach. The scale that I have
>
> taken apart is a 100g/0.01g one. I plan to use 1cm torque rod to use
> the
> gram scale as g*cm. My SO (or the national equivivalent) require
> motors
> up to 80 g*cm, while F1M uses up to 60 g*cm, F1D up to 25, and LRS
> maybe
> 10 g*cm, for these models I'd at least two, maybe three, torque rod
>
> meters, but a single scale-meter would take care of them all. Even
> in
> the LRS scale I would have resolution of 1000 steps until fully
> wound
> motor, much better than the resolution on analog scale.
>
> Second, I feel that the possibility of logging the development of
> motor
> torque while winding up will be help getting the max out of the
> motors.
>
>
>
> -Tapio-
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LeRoy Cordes
in Downstate Illinois
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