by ms6073 on Fri Mar 01, 2013 6:16 pm
Somewhat out of left field but it seems to me that with a hollow tube crank arm system like this, seems like a good candidate for using a small low wattage laser and measure deflection of the beam to determine stress variations. While I am in no way remotely knowledgeable as my only exposure to such technology has been piloting aircraft equipped with glass cockpits that employ ring-laser gyros to measure/display pitch, bank, and yaw data on primary flight displays, but seems like when properly calibrated, measurement of the deflection of a laser could be used as a means of provide extremely accurate power measurement?
- Michael
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