Building a dyno

Greenspeed

Greenspeed

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Howdy everybody! Just wanted to share the website for the team of senior design students we worked with over the last 6 months. They made us an engine dyno that is supposed to hold up to 2000hp (has yet to be tested due to some important "lessons learned" about drawing revisions...).

Dave can answer any questions if you've got any, but there is a lot of info on the site.

https://boisestate.digication.com/adjustable_power_absorber/Home/
 
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Heck of a senior project there. Can only imagine how handy it's gonna be for you all to have an engine Dyno at your disposal. Nice work!
 
Ya, we are pretty excited about it and can't wait to test it out. We will probably have a continuing deal with Boise State to improve and optimize the machine over time. Every year have a group of students work on one part of the system or something.
 
That is a fantastic use of eggheads!

I see a water brake, are you going to use someone else's sensor box?

$1000 budget....LOL.
 
Joesixpack said:
That is a fantastic use of eggheads!

I see a water brake, are you going to use someone else's sensor box?

$1000 budget....LOL.
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What do you mean by sensor box? We will likely reuse the race truck data system for data logging if that's what you mean. For controlling the dyno, it'll be pretty straight forward to use LabView.

The cost actually came in quite a bit under that (due to some awesome material donations).
 
Yeah dyno control. Come up with an engine dyno and control software for 5k and the world would beat down your door.
 
Joesixpack said:
Yeah dyno control. Come up with an engine dyno and control software for 5k and the world would beat down your door.
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Well, this isn't a new design by any means (originated in mid 1800's by William Froude for testing ships, first successful one held 20,000HP at 90RPM!!!), and the capital needed was kept so low through donations of material and no labor costs. To actually contract or produce this would be waaaay out of our reach.
 
Did they bring anything new to the table with the design? Water brakes themselves are commercially available and the brake itself isn that nasty for cost.
 
Nope, nothing new yet. It was a big enough project for a student group to just get their heads around and actually make. Optimizing and refining will come in the future.
 
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