Thermal Sensor and Load Sensor

[Andrew W. Macfadyen]

The same system is used on large ships to give power, torque and speed data
but that is between two in-line bearings on a solid shaft. --- it could
difficult to apply in an automotive context..

Clive Apps Techno-Logicals 416 510 0020 wrote:

> >
> > Someone mentioned drive shaft load sensor.  Must have been asleep when
> > that thread came by before.  Would anyone care to elaborate on where
> > this is stealable from?   I can see many nice uses for this - even more
> > on something as large as an rv.  Thanks in advance for any data or
> > pointers to data.
>
> don't know where you can get one
> but you can make one from 2 magnetic sensors at opposite ends of the shaft
> the phase difference between the 2 sendors will change with the amount
> od load on the shaft
> since this works like a spring or torsion bar the relationaship is not
> linear with displacement, more like a cube function
>
> Clive