Thermal Sensor and Load Sensor

[goflo at pacbell.net]

bamcknig at postoffice.syspac.com wrote:

> another torque sensing system is to put a load sensor under one
> engine mount.  This can be a hydraulic cylinder(single cup wheel
> cylinder)  with a pressure sensor attached.  One mount becomes the
> pivot.  The cylinder is mounted tangent to a circle whose center is
> the pivot.

A hydraulic scheme would be fairly well damped, but it occurs to me
that a low viscosity fluid (air?), a fast pressure sensor (MPX####), 
and a crank pos sensor might resolve the torque impulses from the
individual cylinders. One can imagine uses for such info.

Regards, Jack