Re: Sync Motor :-) Update_4 Notice the Smiley Face?!?

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Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla123-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Hi Jonathon,

Remember we all thought "it just had to sync"? <big grin>. The good news is
it is
syncing as it should. Regarding the meters, I'm not sure what kind of tach
you used
(or others used), but the tach I used showed a perfect 1800 rpm. This
however was a
high dollar tach I borrowed from work to check it way back when. Maybe
there are
some cheaper tachs on the market I'm not aware of. Also, should I get up the
gumption, I'll try to get ahold of a really good strobe. I've done quite a
bit of
work with professional strobes in a previous life - they work like champs
and are
designed for specific rotational speeds. This may help in the future.

Some digital tachs are equiped with memory functions used for averaging
rotational
speed for several measurements. I'm really curious why "any" meter would
show 1725
rpm when the rotational speed is 1800 rpm?

Glad to hear things are "syncing",
Bart

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Kidd6488-at-aol-dot-com>
>
> OK, Now I've REALLY made an -at-$$ out of myself. But I will make up for it at
> the end.
>
> I was still in awe about how my dang motor wouldn't work... I saw terry's
> pictures on hot-streamer of the disk he used on his sync motor. So I got on
> the computer and Made a disk very similar. Taped it on, and took it into the
> bathroom (the only room in our house with no windows) which happens to have
> fluorescent lighting. I plugged it in, and immediately saw the four distinct
> shadows. Turned it off then on and it stayed in the same position. It worked
> the same with the other light I was using. Now I feel really stupid.
> The good side? I know the problem. The half black, half white disk doesn't
> work. So I will upload the picture of this perfect disk to
>
> hot-streamer-dot-com/jonathon/motors/RSGdisk.jpg
>
> as soon as hot-streamer-dot-com recovers*.
>
> I hope we all learned a lesson, that those half, B&W disks do not work well
> for inexperienced "sync'rs" who may have trouble with them.
>
> The other good side is, that Terry won't have to pay to ship it there and
> back, or screw with it at all.
>
> My story sounds a lot like that other person, Josh is it?
> We both had the same problem. :-D
>
> I want to thank you all for putting up with me, and my dumbness. And
> hopefully I wont get razzed to bad.
>
> ---------------------------------------
> Jonathon Reinhart
> hot-streamer-dot-com/jonathon
>
> PS, I checked it again with the RPM meter, and it still said 1725 RPM, so
> that's the last time I trust that son of a gun....
>
> *hot-streamer is loosing a hard drive so it may be down for a day or so
while I
> fix it. - Terry