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Old March 12th 05, 05:18 AM
Rich S.
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"Morgans" wrote in message
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"mindenpilot" wrote

We do all kinds of little tricks like putting a notch in the crankshaft
to
use as a phase reference.
Then we can determine at what point in the cycle an anomaly occurs, which
can lead to different diagnoses.


How does the notch help in telling the rotational position?
--
Jim in NC


It takes a little nick out your finger as it goes by?

Rich "Ow ow ow ow owow ow ow ow ow owow" S.


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Old March 12th 05, 06:19 AM
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On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:25:16 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:


"mindenpilot" wrote

We do all kinds of little tricks like putting a notch in the crankshaft to
use as a phase reference.
Then we can determine at what point in the cycle an anomaly occurs, which
can lead to different diagnoses.


How does the notch help in telling the rotational position?


A little magnet and associated coil sees a difference in flux as the
slot goes by. This is a variable reluctance sensor.
Your auto engine may be timed from something like this, any more.

Brian W
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Old March 13th 05, 03:56 AM
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Morgans wrote:
"mindenpilot" wrote


We do all kinds of little tricks like putting a notch in the crankshaft to
use as a phase reference.
Then we can determine at what point in the cycle an anomaly occurs, which
can lead to different diagnoses.



How does the notch help in telling the rotational position?


It adds a known vibration to the system? ;-)

Presumably, it gets used as a timing mark of some kind. I guess that
monitoring the spark time to the No 1 cylinder would almost give you the
same. "Almost" because of course the spark can be advanced/retarded.

Frank

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Old March 13th 05, 06:15 AM
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"Morgans" wrote in message
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How does the notch help in telling the rotational position?
--
Jim in NC


Without giving too much away...
The notch depth is more significant than any vibration. If using a
proximity measurment, it is easy to determine when the notch occurs.
The notch is aligned with a known position (engineer inserts notch when
pistons/crank is in known position). This gives a phase reference. You can
compare where in the cycle a disturbance (knock, rub, etc) occurs with
relation to the notch. On recip applications, often a multi-tooth wheel is
used in addition to a phase reference for more accuracy.

Adam
N7966L
Beech Super III


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Old March 13th 05, 09:14 AM
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In article ,
says...


"Morgans" wrote in message
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How does the notch help in telling the rotational position?
--
Jim in NC


Without giving too much away...
The notch depth is more significant than any vibration. If using a
proximity measurment, it is easy to determine when the notch occurs.
The notch is aligned with a known position (engineer inserts notch whe
n
pistons/crank is in known position). This gives a phase reference. Y
ou can
compare where in the cycle a disturbance (knock, rub, etc) occurs with

relation to the notch. On recip applications, often a multi-tooth whe
el is
used in addition to a phase reference for more accuracy.

Adam
N7966L
Beech Super III


I love puzzles.

Start out with a picture in your mind of a perfectly round crank flange
with a dial indicator rideing on the outside edge at the top as you
slowly rotate the crank. The indicator will not move because the
flange is perfectly round.

Under viberation, the crank will move up and down (within the limits of
the bearing clearance) and the dial indicator will show how far the
crank moves.

Now replace the dial indicator with a precision proximity detector.
You get a steady flat line electronic signal until you get movement up
or down. Then the signal will change at the same frequency as the
movement and change amptitude with the amount of movement.

Now add a notch across the edge of the flange so that the notch is seen
by the sensor when #1 piston is at top dead center.

That notch causes a much larger timing blip in the signal than any
crank movement will cause. By measureing the time between the timing
blips you can determine the amount of rotation after a timing blip that
you see an up or down crank movement event.

In other words if you see a minor blip exactly midway between timing
blips then you know the crank moved up or down when #1 piston was at
bottom dead center in our example. The amptitude of the minor blip
will tell you how far it moved. It could even be set up to tell you if
the crank moved up or moved down by the polarity shift of the signal.

Of course this simple setup will not show side to side movement. That
would require a second proximity detector 90 degrees from the first
one. The 2 signals would require integration but would then show all
movement in the rotational plane with the proper signal processing and
calibration.

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Old March 13th 05, 02:35 PM
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"sleepy6" wrote

That notch causes a much larger timing blip in the signal than any
crank movement will cause. By measureing the time between the timing
blips you can determine the amount of rotation after a timing blip that
you see an up or down crank movement event.


What sort of technology does a proxomity detector use? Magnetics, sonic,
radio waves?
--
Jim in NC


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Old March 13th 05, 04:13 PM
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Without giving too much away............ (yuk yuk yuk)

One can always post your questions at:
http://www.vibinst.org/default.htm

and usually somebody will be happy to answer.

Phase indicators can be a variety of schemes or devices. Proximity
probes, and notch. Strobe light. Magnetic interrupter. Photocell.
Even the old proverbial pencil and masking tape!

Kent Felkins
Tulsa




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Old March 13th 05, 04:14 PM
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Jim,

I have a Memsic demo board, which displays LEDS on two axis with
their tilt and motion sensor.

I am done with it, would you like to play with it?

George Graham
RX-7 Powered Graham-EZ, N4449E
Homepage http://bfn.org/~ca266

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Old March 13th 05, 06:07 PM
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Strangely enough, that is what I *DID* for a living when Spectral Dynamics
was the industry leader in machinery diagnostics. Unfortunately, my job was
the circuit design, not the diagnostics itself, so all I concerned myself
with was the black box that took a defined input and produced a defined
output. There are times I wish that I had transferred to the applications
department. They were the ones that seemed to have the most fun (and the
most three martini Friday lunches).


Jim


"

Stangely enough, this is what I do for a living. No kidding.
I am an engineer at Bently Nevada, Corp, the industry leader in machinery
diagnostics.



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Old March 13th 05, 06:11 PM
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Yes, all of the below.

Sometimes you drill a hole in a small magnet and use a small screw to hold
it to the propeller backing plate. Sometimes you use a strip of reflective
tape on the prop itself. Sometimes you use a pulse from the #1 magneto
lead.

Jim




"Morgans" wrote in message
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"sleepy6" wrote

That notch causes a much larger timing blip in the signal than any
crank movement will cause. By measureing the time between the timing
blips you can determine the amount of rotation after a timing blip that
you see an up or down crank movement event.


What sort of technology does a proxomity detector use? Magnetics, sonic,
radio waves?
--
Jim in NC




 




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