What is the most effective way to measure torque?
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What is the most effective way to measure torque?
My way of measuring torque and counter torque is tedious and time consuming. 36 points around a wheel with a scale and finally adding them to see if they equal zero... what is the most common way or what way do you find the easiest and most accurate.
re: What is the most effective way to measure torque?
If you were doing it a lot, you could make a computer based rig to automatically test in 1 degree increments. It would measure torque very similarly to the way you are doing it.
A second less complicated way would be to make a measuring jig.(If you were near me, I would be happy to make it for you). Imagine a disk with evenly spaced holes around the axle. each set of holes at the angle you want to measure. Have some quick removable pins to rotate a see-saw lever to the next position. The end of the lever overhangs a digital kitchen scale, and zero out a known weight on that end, so it will give positive and negative values.
It would still be a little tedious, but would be a lot quicker.
A second less complicated way would be to make a measuring jig.(If you were near me, I would be happy to make it for you). Imagine a disk with evenly spaced holes around the axle. each set of holes at the angle you want to measure. Have some quick removable pins to rotate a see-saw lever to the next position. The end of the lever overhangs a digital kitchen scale, and zero out a known weight on that end, so it will give positive and negative values.
It would still be a little tedious, but would be a lot quicker.
re: What is the most effective way to measure torque?
One more way: From the info you gave, I Imagine a ball(maybe) rolling in a track. Is your track a single path, where the ball rolls back and forth, or a oval(ish) track where the ball continues its path around it for 360 degrees?
If your "ball" has 2(or more) fixed positions on either side of the wheel, you can mathematically calculate using trig and an excel spreadsheet. This way you can also measure theoretically optimum positions for 1 degree increments (or easily more). I used this method early in my search on a Baskara type wheel.
If your "ball" has 2(or more) fixed positions on either side of the wheel, you can mathematically calculate using trig and an excel spreadsheet. This way you can also measure theoretically optimum positions for 1 degree increments (or easily more). I used this method early in my search on a Baskara type wheel.