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Re: Basic Stamp Controlled Spark Gap
Original poster: "Harold Weiss by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <hweiss-at-new.rr-dot-com>
Hi All,
I would use either a shaft encoder or reflective target system. Either of
these prevent the unbalenceing of the rotor.
David E Weiss
> Original poster: "Crow Leader by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<tesla-at-lists.symmetric-dot-net>
>
> I've made ghetto sensors by wrapping like 50 turns of magnet wire around a
> regular 1/4" bolt and taping a magnet to whatever is spinning. It actually
> costs, nothing.I don't have any waveforms here, but the pulses were pretty
> fast and clean, and of a upto a few volts.
>
>
> KEN
>
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 6:38 PM
> Subject: Re: Basic Stamp Controlled Spark Gap
>
>
> > Original poster: "Ben McMillen by way of Terry Fritz
> <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <spoonman534-at-yahoo-dot-com>
> >
> > Hi Jeremy, Terry,
> > Why not use a hall effect sensor? I realize that the
> > fields we're dealing with here are quite strong, but if you
> > were to find a sensor that was tolerant of background EM
> > fields (of the tesla coil type) and use a small neodymium
> > magnet to get rotor position, you'd essentially have your
> > 'spike' to feed back into the MCU.. The idea here being
> > that the sensor would only give a 'strong' output when the
> > magnet passed by.. If you had a strong enough (and small
> > enough) magnet, and a bit of epoxy..
> msnip...