[time-nuts] Need usb time interval time for portable bullet chrongraph

Don Latham djl at montana.com
Mon Aug 27 05:51:58 UTC 2012


Hi Paul:
I'm presently adapting a chrony chronograph because I want to use the
triggers for timing and other purposes. They've spent a LOT of
engineering time to get proper triggering, and the triggers can easily
be pulled off without disturbing the basic unit. The triggers are robust
and will drive a piece of coax with a nice pulse at a 5 v level. The
cheapest chrony is under $100 and using their triggers will save you
HOURS and HOURS of fiddling around, trust me!
You can use something like an arduino which has two interrupt inputs to
do the time measurement, or as Tom suggests.
Don

Paul Cianciolo
> Hello Folks
>
> I have been looking at bullet chrographs and wondering if I could get
> the a usb module to do a interval measurement and display on my laptop.
> on a yet to be discovered module to calculate the time interval between
> the pulses?
>
> The bullet travels at approx 1050 feet per second.
> By spacing my gates providing the start stop pulses precisely 1 foot
> apart I think a direct read out except for the decibal point being in
> the wrong place .
>
> Does this seem fesable?
>  
> Here is one module I found http://www.weedtech.com/index_eventcount.html
>  
> Any thoughts on this?
> The reason for the USB would be for display on my laptop at the firing
> range
>
> Thank you for any help I would really appreciate it
>
> PaulC
> W1VLF
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