Electric motor test software

[Bartman]

Hi everyone,

Can anyone recommend a data collection software package that I can use for testing electric motors? I'd like to be able to display values while also logging them over time so I can study efficiency and power useage. It also needs to be able to do this with multiple motors simultaneously.

THanks,
Bart

 

[mailman35]

id imagine there is a way to do this with an Arduino and some add ons .

http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/26583/how-to-measure-current-to-a-dc-motor

 

[redridinghood]

Castle esc logging comes to mind.

 

[Bartman]

no time to figure out Arduino and the Castle only lets you look at the data after the run. i'd like to find something with a real time display while logging on a computer.

i can just use a multi-meter and pen/paper for now.

 

[kloner]

Thats an eagle tree logger...... need to borrow one?

 

[Bartman]

this?

http://www.eagletreesystems.com/MicroPower/details.htm

yes!

 

[kloner]

it's a v.3, only difference is the cable it plugs into the pc with and it's here so no problem. been wet so the labels a little hard to read, but it is totaly acurate. theres no power panel thing to view it, just a pc connection, has a live mode, you can show, chart, record any parameter you have a sensor for. temps, rpm's, amps, watts, volts, all that kinda stuff.

 

[Bartman]

Thanks Mr. Kloner. Let me see how expensive the unit is and what I'd need. Maybe I'll just buy one.

Bart

 

[kloner]

this is as cheap as i've found

http://www.readymaderc.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=10&products_id=143

this one totaly works...... your welcome to it as long as you need, but smart guy get the osd pro package and mounts it up to see all this real life on your rig. That's whats going in mine

http://www.readymaderc.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=10&products_id=27
the whole ball of wax. it is logged too, but is osd info. heck, it'll rth a plane if you used it there