Sigh.
That initial degree of uncertainty only exists for 12. 5 milliseconds at
25 mph (80 pulses per second). How is that even the least bit relevant
here?? No way a tower or its antennas respond mechanically to anything
even remotely that brief. After the first few pulses, the uncertainty
rapidly decreases as the number of measured intervals accumulate and the
measurement accuracy becomes dependent upon the linearity of the
anemometer (rated at +/-4%) plus whatever inertial effects create
acceleration/deceleration delay for gusts. I would find it very
difficult to believe that response times less than several hundred
milliseconds would represent anything other than pure scientific
curiosity, and there isn't a shred of justification for your original
contention that this kind of application requires expensive equipment.
It simply does not.
Besides, the positional accuracy for eight pulses per revolution is not
+/- 12.5 % ... it's +/- 6.25 %.
On top of that, in real life the anemometer would have been spinning all
along, happily generating pulses that were being measured and averaged,
and the only way that the full +/- 6.25% inaccuracy would be of concern
for ANY 12.5 millisecond window is if you erroneously thought that wind
gusts could spike with an infinite ramp. They don't ... they have their
own time constant and it isn't anywhere close to being in the single
digit range of milliseconds.
Dave AB7E
On 4/29/2014 9:08 PM, Al Kozakiewicz wrote:
This is the key thing that misses the entire point. It's not the accuracy of the time
measurement that's the issue. It is the uncertainty of when position transitions are
crossed. With either electromagnetic or optical sensors, that uncertainty is 1/8th of a
revolution with an 8 ppr transducer. The fact that you can measure the time between
"pulses" accurately is not disputed. The issue is that the rotational distance
(hence velocity) 8 pulses represents is known only to +/- 12.5%.
Again, no practical matter since no one would try to measure wind speed with
such a small sample and expect high accuracy. Nor can I think of a reason why
you would need to in this application.
Al
AB2ZY
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