I know some Cocooners were trying to do something similar, so I figured I would post this here.
http://www.raphnet.net/divers/anemometre/anemometer_en.php
http://www.raphnet.net/divers/anemometre/anemometer_en.php
Homebuilt anemometer
- Thread starter electron
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Reminds me of the late '70's when I designed a 3-cup digital anemometer. I had 3 ice cream scoops heliarc-welded to 3 AL spokes. The shaft entered a water-tight electrical box. The shaft inside had an acetate optical disk which was read by a U-shaped TI IR rcvr/xmtr IR sensor and fed to a Schmidt trigger. Pulses vs time were counted, averaged by 10 samples and the output drove 7-segment LED displays. The gov't said that it was the most accurate wind speed indicator they ever tested. It made its way into the commerical market along with a companion optically-encoded wind direction device which used a gray code disk.
If you go back that far, the product line was called MetData.
Thanks for bringing back the mems!
If you go back that far, the product line was called MetData.
Thanks for bringing back the mems!
justonemore
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Jeez. Need babblefish again? Just kidding Jay.
justonemore
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And that one even had wind direction enabled!
justonemore
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I do somewhat remember that project from the gov't Jay. As a matter of fact I still have one of the original MetaScoops that my son uses nightly for his evening snack.
justonemore
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We're used to it on Ski's board!
BraveSirRobbin
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I'm wondering if you can make this work via CMax code in the Ocelot?? For instance you would have to somehow "count" the number of digital input transitions (from an SECU16/I) over a period of time.
Possible using an imbedded timer(s) maybe??
Possible using an imbedded timer(s) maybe??
Guy Lavoie
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The bus latency of an Ocelot and modules like the SECU16 don't allow it to count very fast. I would say that anything that exceeds more then one pulse every 1.5 to 2 seconds risks losing some events. This is especially true if you have several modules on your adnet bus, because each individual module is polled a bit less often per second. A device like a anemometer would likely put out many pulses per second (typically at least one per shaft revolution).
This would be a good microcontroller project however!
This would be a good microcontroller project however!
