Dea Sirs, How can I simply count the RPM of a shaft coupled to an electric motor in my own simple workshop? I do not know the rpm of motor and the reduction ratio of planet gear. Thanks in advance
The most reliable inexpensive method is if you have something protruding from a shaft that can be sensed by an inductive proximity sensor as it passes by, then fed into a counter / rate meter. That could be a shaft key, gear teeth, a cam lobe anything metal that is at a different diameter from the axis of rotation than the main shaft.
Next would be an optical sensor looking for a specific mark on the shaft, but these are subject to dirt causing misreads.
Less reliable but simpler if you only want to measure once is a hand held rubber wheel tachometer.
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