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A crummy little servo tester and other minutia
The little servo tester Well, I needed a way to test all of these servos I got from EBay and I decided to spend a little time making a quick and dirty little board for doing that. It uses a … Continue reading
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Tagged diy, FAT, File Allocation table, pic12f683, RC servo, Stormer viscometer, viscometer
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Viscometer board proceeding, some RS232 fun.
Well, things have been proceeding apace, and I’m feeling pretty confident that I’ll have both versions done fairly soon. For debugging the device I’ve decided to create a kind of terminal, this allows one to directly access commands and see … Continue reading
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Tagged diy viscometer, pic18f4680, process viscometer, prototype, rs232, Stormer viscometer
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One last kick at the can, Viscometer Style!
Well, since funding for the viscometer has fallen through for various, understandable reasons, I have decided to take one last kick at the can before I shift my focus on to other ventures. The last kick at the can? Two … Continue reading
Stormer Viscometer Grams to Oz-Inch Conversion
Trying to make sense of the standard stormer viscometer and methods that could be used to calibrate a device, I’ve been looking at the original stormer viscometer in order to get an idea of what ‘grams’ actually means in the … Continue reading
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Tagged conversion, grams, krebs, oz-inches, Stormer viscometer, torque
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Grams to Krebs conversion formulae
After many a day scratching my head as to why I can’t get my viscometer to calibrate correctly, even assuming logarithmic and quadratic relationships, I find out why I have been having so many problems. Krebs units are in not … Continue reading
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Tagged conversion, grams, grams to krebs, krebs, Stormer viscometer
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Working on new viscometer head
Well, I’ve been designing some new stuff since having a little wind of inspiration. This head weighs in at about 700g and provisions have been made to allow an attachment to a handle and therefore a hand-held version could be … Continue reading
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Tagged engineering, sensor, Stormer, Stormer viscometer, viscometer
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Getting closer to final completion
A long road behind and still some ahead, here are some pic of the viscometer in its state of completion. Now to implement the ModBUS protocol and finish up this project.
Posted in Electronics, Programming, Work
Tagged diy, diy viscometer, process viscometer, Stormer viscometer, viscometer
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Krebs to Poise Formula
Looking for a decent formula on the net for a Krebs to Poise conversion I’m left empty handed. I found a chart that had listed direct numerical conversions. Here’s the Best Fit value in the Quadratic form ax^2+bx+c=y y=0.00419037x^2+(-0.306745)x+6.40025 y=poise … Continue reading
In-Process Stormer Viscometer – Damn near complete
The viscometer is nearing full completion! YAY! To mark this occasion to mark the end of a long two years, I am placing a small gallery of the almost finished product. The only thing missing is the outside cover which … Continue reading
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Tagged completed, diy, diy viscometer, paddles, pic18f4685, pictures, Stormer viscometer, viscometer
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Yay! They work!
Well, I got the power board and control boards done. They both work flawlessly. YAY! The peripherals seem to work too.
Spring Stormer Viscometer, proceeding, the board works.
Well, I recently recieved my boards back from ap circuits in Calgary and I’m pleased with the result. I kind of fucked up by ordering 4 of the same board and not 2 of the control board and 2 power … Continue reading
A brief post, school and business
Well, I’ve been at Microbusiness Training center for 5 weeks now and I’ve been working as well. Soon, Eight-M Technical Services will be operational and i’ll be working for myself. I’ve set up a new domain with my Dreamhost account. … Continue reading
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Tagged business, eight-m technical services, logo, microbusiness, rotary viscometer, Stormer viscometer, viscometer
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Rotary Viscometer almost finished
Well, it’s been a long road but I’m almost at the finish line in terms of the majority of development. All of the parts are mostly made and I’ll begin programming very soon, most of which has been done already … Continue reading
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Tagged phenolic base, rotary viscometer, rotational, Stormer viscometer, viscometer
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New Viscometer board design and physical revamp.
Since my design was accepted in terms of moving ahead on a prototype, I’ve been working first on the board design. I have decided to abandon the PIC18F2620 in favour of the 18F4685. The reason for this change over is … Continue reading
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Tagged diy viscometer, pic18f4585, pic18f4685, Stormer, Stormer viscometer, viscosimeter
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Viscometer Ver.(Eleventy Billion Jillion) a la rotational
Well, this has a been a long few days of work. I have created the ideal rotary viscometer in both terms of price and repeatability. Now, this idea is nothing new but I’m simply happy that it works. I guess … Continue reading
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Tagged diy, electronics, pic18f2620, rotary viscometer, Stormer, Stormer viscometer, viscometer
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Working on the new rotary viscometer
Been working on a new version of the rotary viscometer, after many design changes, the result is this. A rotary viscometer bridged with a rotary reaction strain gage. Guess it’ll work. Here are some pictures. I’d say a bit more … Continue reading
Complete 180, well, perhaps 90.
So, after doing a bunch of work on the rotary strain gage it’s been declared incorrect. Oh well. Here’s the new concept, although not my own idea, were going to rebuild the entire concept around the notion of a dynomometer. … Continue reading
Rotary Strain Gage update
Well, it’s been a little while since the last update, I suppose I should have stated something sooner. So far, the device seems to work but now I have mechanical problems. Friction on the top is preventing the load from … Continue reading
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Tagged rotary viscometer, Stormer, Stormer viscometer, strain, viscometer
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Viscometer Rotary Strain Gage update
It hasn’t been long since my last update about this thing but I’ve made some progress as far as making the unit into a single board. I simply used the AD7705B as I suspected it work work great for this … Continue reading
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Tagged electronics, rotary viscometer, sensor, Stormer viscometer, transducer
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The Rotary Torque Sensor… continued
Well, so far, so good. That’s all I can say at the moment. The rotary gage is operational, though it hasn’t had brushes made for it and it seems to output a reasonable amount of voltage difference based on displacement. … Continue reading
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Tagged rotary viscometer, sensor, Stormer viscometer, viscometer
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Torque Coupling Update
This update is a little bigger than usual since I want keep the images and text as a sort of record of what I did for future reference. For the viscometer project, I’ve discovered that the motor is far too … Continue reading
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Tagged ad7705, circuit, electrical, electronics, Stormer viscometer, viscometer, Work
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Creating a strain gage coupling
So now I have to find some way of measuring the torque applied between the two shafts of the viscometer. Here’s my idea. What you can’t see is that I plan to manufacture it out of plastic, that way the … Continue reading
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Tagged coupling, solidworks, Stormer viscometer, strain, strain gage, viscometer
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Graphing program and viscometer proceeding apace
Well, things are proceeding apace as far as the viscometer is concerned. Unfortunately, the motor is just too non-linear to serve as a useful measuring device. God I’m dumb! Anyways, my graph-it program is working ok now and producing some … Continue reading
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Tagged freebasic, graph, graphing, program, Stormer viscometer, viscometer
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Viscometer and Graphing
Now that I’ve got the new board working, I’ve been programming all of the pertinant functions back into the chip. This time I’ve redesigned them to be a little more modular and useful in the long term. As was mentioned … Continue reading
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Tagged adc, pic, project, smackaay, Stormer viscometer, viscometer
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New Viscometer Board
Well, my design finally came to fruition from AP Circuits and I can say I’m quite pleased with the results. The overall appearance of it is really nice, for me at least. Interestingly enough, I had some problems and made … Continue reading
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Tagged electronics, microchip, pic18f, Stormer viscometer, viscometer
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