RE: Basic Stamp Controlled Spark Gap

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Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>


Thats right.  You are using a basic stamp controller.
I would get an optical encoder.  Extremely easy to interface to basic stamps
and other microcontrollers.
Try USDigital Inc.   They have a wide variety of optical encoders ready to
be attached to shafts etc...

The Captain



 > 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
 >  >
 >  > ----- Original Message -----
 >  > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 >  > To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 >  > 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...
 >
 >