Morning,
My brother is a speed shearer and asked me to help find him a product to connect onto his shearing equipment to automatically start when the machine is turned on and stop when turned off... so that there is a even baseline for all times obtained, with no human delay... We would then pump this through to a monitor mounted over the shearers head.
The machine is controlled by a pullcord which we thought we could tie/pinch another pullcord onto but as its electric, i thought an Ac/DC sensor clamped onto the supply cable would be better. We don't want to be taking the machine so anything would need to be external.
Would it be possible to achieve this with a simple stopwatch coded on a Rasberry Pi, with a AC/DC current clamp sensor? If so would somebody mind replying below, or pm'ing me on how to achieve this?
Any questions message me, sorry if its not clearest description.
My brother is a speed shearer and asked me to help find him a product to connect onto his shearing equipment to automatically start when the machine is turned on and stop when turned off... so that there is a even baseline for all times obtained, with no human delay... We would then pump this through to a monitor mounted over the shearers head.
The machine is controlled by a pullcord which we thought we could tie/pinch another pullcord onto but as its electric, i thought an Ac/DC sensor clamped onto the supply cable would be better. We don't want to be taking the machine so anything would need to be external.
Would it be possible to achieve this with a simple stopwatch coded on a Rasberry Pi, with a AC/DC current clamp sensor? If so would somebody mind replying below, or pm'ing me on how to achieve this?
Any questions message me, sorry if its not clearest description.
Statistics: Posted by SmavidDavid — Sat Apr 13, 2024 9:59 am
