tachometer

Very low cost way of measuring tool speed.

After switching my lathe to a variable speed DC motor I didn't know it’s speed range so rather than buying a digital tachometer for a one off measurement I used some old tech… a homemade strobe tachometer. Turntables had a series of lines around the platter so that with a strobe you could set...
- Rick M
- Thread
- Apr 25, 2013
- fluorescent lathe rpm speed strobe tachometer
- Replies: 5
- Forum: "How To" Forum
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mini-review: Cen-Tech Digital Contact Tachometer

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- Sully
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- May 20, 2011
- centech contact digital minireview tachometer
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Power Tools and Their Use