Monty Roberts wrote:

Why reinvent the wheel? The model jet people have long since decided the
best thing to do is place a magnetic washer under the compressor nut and
place a sensor on the outside of the inlet.

See:

http://nades.net/catalog/index.php?cPath=22_25

Also note the thermocouple. You will of course have to devise your own
guage. I would use one of the new USB based data aquisition products. You
could interface with a lap top. Or maybe a PDA. Not sure if they have USB
ports or not.

See:

http://www.azeotech.com/products.php

Monty

Thanks for the turbo charger tach tip Monty. How far away is the sensor from
the magnet?
I was just getting ready to design a water cooling system for the 75 C
plastic
fiber optics. We only need this thing for R&D. Once we have a handle
on the RPM we don't need it anymore.

Paul Lamar

François Badoux wrote:

We have the turbo RPM sensor which Monty talks about on both the bench
engine for R&D purposes, as well as on the Arrow for altitude testing.  I
don't remember the cost of the sensor, but the very fact I don't remember
means that it is not very expensive.  It is easy to install and works just
fine.

Francois-- 

What kind of RPM numbers are you seeing Francois?

Paul Lamar

 
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