Acousttic wind speed measurement using phase only

Jun 13, 2015 6 Replies

The idea:

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idea is to simply _add_ direct and reflected signal, use a peak detector.


You do not need the second resistor, there is enough direct coupling between the piezos.



For 1 - 100 km/h wind speed to be in the range -90 degrees to +90 degrees phase shift, the transmitter and receiver must be really close together. few cm actually,. The only way to get the wind to have an unobstructed effect is use reflections.



Test setup (sort of reproduces from a desk full of stuff):

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I do measure changes, but PC fan is not really that fast, and the blades cause reflections by themselves.



Then as justification not to use it (grapes are too high sort of thing) well pinging, or 40 kHz carrier all the time, is not stealth. LOL



Still waiting for the BMP180 modules... (for differential pressure method).



Using acoustic reflections is not new, others do it too:

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but look at the price...



To take a picture of a piece of paper, set the camera for snow scenes. Then white will come out white. (Cameras assume that all scenes are on average 18% gray, unless told otherwise.)

A one-transistor synchronous detector will do a far better job.

Joe Gwinn

It's weatherproof.

On a sunny day (Sat, 13 Jun 2015 11:37:57 -0400) it happened Joe Gwinn wrote in :

mmm

No

On a sunny day (Sat, 13 Jun 2015 16:28:13 GMT) it happened Jan Panteltje wrote in :

PS. In the early circuit, in the windtunnel (posted here years ago), I used a dual gate. I disabled that dual gate here because:

1) The amplitude at the tx peize is overa hundred volt pp 2) the amplitude at the rx piezo is hundreds of mV (say 500 mV or so). Adding in the correct ratio gives: 1 V if in phase 0 V if out of phase, 0-1 V DC after the peak detector.

.5 V if no wind.

A huge signal, if into a PIC ADC at 1.0something V reference just right. No gain s*it, no power consumption, no distortion.

2 You guys really need to learn how to adjust a monitor.

bet you would wanna change a Rembrand too . ;-)

You might also be interested in this one:

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Good discussion of some of the technical issues.

Regards, Adrian Jansen adrianjansen at internode dot on dot net Note reply address is invalid, convert address above to machine form.

On a sunny day (Mon, 15 Jun 2015 09:21:33 +1000) it happened Adrian Jansen wrote in :

Right, already studied that years ago :-)

And this:

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