A new way to test a Ground Speed Radar for a locomotive
- The diesel locomotives WDP* and WDG* series are GM EMD Locomotives
- These locomotives use a Doppler effect (Radar) based ground speed sensor.
- This Radar is used for wheel slip measurement, which means that the locomotive has lost traction and its wheels are hopelessly turning and hence not moving.
- The quick way of testing this radar is to hold a tuning fork of a certain frequency and depending on its resonant frequency the Radar senses the speed
- So ideally anything that resonates at a certain frequency can be used.
- A speaker also resonates at certain frequency.
- So if a sinusoidal wave is fed to the speaker diaphragm it would also resonate at its base frequency.
- Luckily got a speaker set and used an Android Tone generator app and below are the results.
- Basically a proof of concept of speed sensing based on frequency of tone.
- 2 videos below demonstrate the speed sensor sensing different frequencies based on tone.
- The pista green device with the white lens is the radar that is being tested
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