Thermal Sensor and Load Sensor

Peterson, Lew [Cont] lew.peterson at canada.cdev.com
Fri Jul 17 17:04:41 GMT 1998


What sort of phase difference are we looking for? I would think the amount
of twist in the driveshaft would be quite small.
Lew
Calgary

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Clive Apps   Techno-Logicals   416 510 0020
> [SMTP:clive at problem.tantech.com]
> Sent:	July 17, 1998 12:10 AM
> To:	diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu
> Subject:	Re: Thermal Sensor and Load Sensor
> 
> > 
> > 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 



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