Re: Simple Strobe Tach
- From: Jeff Wisnia <jwisnia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 10:14:46 -0400
Gerald Miller wrote:
On Fri, 11 May 2007 18:57:46 -0400, Jeff Wisnia
<jwisnia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Spotted this link on another newsgroup today:
http://www.sherline.com/rpmgage.pdf
It struck me as pretty clever. I still have one of my olde strobe disks calibrated for 33-1/3, 45 and 78.26 RPM from back in the days when I used to repair turntables and record players.
Jeff
I used that with a neon "night light" before I bought a proper
tachometer. I used a highlighter to colour the band of prime interest
for greater ease in locating it in the dim lighting.
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada
Yeah, I still don't own a tach, other than one of those non-contacting electrostatic pickup ones used for checking the speed of one cylinder gas engines.
But, when I was curious about what the actual spindle speeds on my old Stark lathe were after I'd bought it and fitted it up with a step V-belt pully and a Craftsman speed change pully rig made for use with wood lathes, I did this:
I securely taped a small magnet on the inside of one of the chuck jaws, hooked an old relay coil across the input of my oscilloscope, held the coil near the spinning chuck, measured the pulse spacing with the scope's time base, and did the math.
Pretty is as pretty does.....
Jeff
PS- Here's my Stark lathe:
http://home.comcast.net/%7Ejwisnia18/temp/stark.jpg
That rectangular tag hanging off a hook to the left of the chuck is a gage I made equal to the didtance between the top of the cross slide and the spindle centerline. I makes for easy setting of a tool bit in the lantern toolpost.
--
Jeffry Wisnia
(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)
The speed of light is 1.98*1014 fathoms per fortnight.
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