Archie wrote:

I used an old hydraulic cylinder with a pressure gauge
attached to it on the first dyno I built.
Largely because these components were lying around.
The torque,(or moment arm), applied the force.

Archie

PowerSport had a nice homemade dyno at OSH.
They used a load cell that fed data into a PC.
Great for auto logging data. I need to get up
there before it gets too cold and see how they
are doing.

psdyno.jpg

Paul Lamar
 
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