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Originally posted by Steve
OK, in the old days, you could put some chalk on your car's timing pully, point a strobing timing light at it and determine the timing of your engine. Now days, I can't even find the spark plugs. Anyway, what if we put a little white mark on our Zips wheels, and with the timing gun, could we check wheel RPM's or something? Sorry, must be the beer.
Also, I thought someone was going to rig up a motherboard fan RMP header so that we could build a Zip Dyno? Well...get busy dammit!
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Yup must be the beer steve! HEHE!! I just don't see how you can rig a timing gun used to measure the degress at which the crankshaft is at when cylinder 1 fires to measure a electric motor RMP!
I have been looking into a simple circuit using an old ball mouse, (YES mice weren't always optical kids) One could take the IR emitter and receiver and put a back tire between the two, take advantage of the missing piece on ZZ tires where the hubcap goes to trigger the receiver. or simple attach the encoder wheel to a tire somehow, covering all of the holes but one.
The problem come with interfacing to a PC.
www.boondog.com/tutorials/irled/ir.html
wish this guy would've finish his project
I'll keep searching the we for something we can use!