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Author Topic: More Homemade Stuff ----- Prony Brake  (Read 738 times)

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Re: More Homemade Stuff ----- Prony Brake
« on: September 14, 2023, 02:33:06 pm »
That seems a very reasonable and well thought out approach!

It will be very interesting to see your results with different engines and perhaps different boiler pressures as well.

I could see plotting and graphing different readings against different boiler pressures at stall, to come up with extrapolated value ranges between and beyond actual data points.

Hummmmmm ...... this sounds like fun!!!
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