1Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Port Harcourt, Choba, Rivers State, Nigeria
American Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
2017,
Vol. 5 No. 1, 1-9
DOI: 10.12691/ajeee-5-1-1
Copyright © 2017 Science and Education PublishingCite this paper: M. Ehikhamenle, B.O. Omijeh. Design and Development of a Smart Digital Tachometer Using At89c52 Microcontroller.
American Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. 2017; 5(1):1-9. doi: 10.12691/ajeee-5-1-1.
Correspondence to: M. Ehikhamenle, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Port Harcourt, Choba, Rivers State, Nigeria. Email:
mattinite4u@yahoo.comAbstract
A microcontroller based tachometer is a device that measures the rotation speed of a shaft or disk in motor or other machines [1]. This device is an embedded system; it is built using a microcontroller, an alpha-numeric LCD module and an infrared system to detect the rotation of the fan whose speed is being measured. The infrared system generates the pulses from the fan which will be sent to the microcontroller and the pulses will be counted; the reading is displayed on the liquid crystal display (LCD module) in revolution per minute (RPM). It is A low cost digital tachometer that can display exact speed reading based on how fast an object is rotating.it adopts the Use infrared transmitter and receiver as the technology behind the speed detection. It can be used in various applications. It can measure the speed of rotating objects (examples of rotating objects include: a bike tyre, a car tyre, a ceiling fan, or any other motor) in the most accurate form possible. In automotives, it is used as a gauge showing the speed (RPM) of the engine shaft that is driving the transmission, usually in thousands of rotations per minute.
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