for mower engines. A Tachometer is a gauge on a vehicle that tells you how quickly the crankshaft of the engine is turning. It is typically a unit of measure called revolutions per minute (RPM). There ...

Engineers often want to monitor a shaft’s rotational speed but get bogged down trying to get sensors, signal conditioners, cabling, and bulky housings to work together. To solve this dilemma, ...

Electro-SensorsInc. announces the ST420, a loop-powered,stainless-steel analog shaft tachometer. The ST420 requires no usercalibration, providing a dependable shaft speed monitoring solution right ...

Tachometry, the measurement of the speed of spin of rotating objects, is a common application. Some of those objects, however, have quirky aspects that make them extra interesting, even scary. One ...

If you’re into anything even vaguely mechanical on the broad hacking spectrum, you’ve come into contact with things that spin. Sometimes, it’s important to know precisely how fast they are spinning!

With more and more new-car buyers choosing automatic transmissions over manuals, why do tachometers still have such a large presence on dashboards? The tachometer displays engine speed in revolutions ...

This tutorial will guide you through the process of building a tachometer around an Arduino. Tachometers are used to measure rotation rate in Revolutions Per Minute ...