Water Brake?

[David Piper]

At 08:09 AM 11/19/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>-> but hot-rod magazines offer on-car dyno's which are torque load cells
>-> which are mounted on prop-shafts which could easily adapted to your
>
> Superflow uses a tension-type load cell and the absorber is free to
>rotate against its resistance.  I've seen load cells in that range for
>$150 or so.
>
> Clayton uses a calibrated spring with a linear potentiometer; the
>absorber is also free to rotate.
>
> Electric dynos are supposed to tell by looking at the eddy current, or
>something.  I've never found out a whole lot about those.
>
> The inline torque load cells you mentioned are probably the most
>expensive way, but I can't think of anything else offhand that'd work
>with a prop dyno.

What about the inertial DynoJet?