Hi there, new to arduino and sparkfun, but confident these are the tools we need for this project. Working on a fluid piping system where monopropellant is delivered in short bursts thru small diameter piping. As the high-speed valves in this system open and close, and liquid abruptly starts and stops, lateral forces and significant vibration are present within this piping system. We’d like to use an arduino setup to analyze these forces and vibrations, either by allowing the piping system to move and having an accelerometer attached to the point of interest or by replacing one/some of the fixed piping supports with load cells (so that it can’t move but forces are transferred to load cells). Looking for basic advice on ideal hardware and setup that would reliably capture and log this data at 500-1000hz or better. Anticipated force range is <100N. Any help appreciated, thanks for your time.
I would start by experimenting with the ADXL354 analog output accelerometer. The built in low pass filter has a 50% “cutoff” of 1.5 kHz, and sensitivity/noise figures which may be adequate to the task.
Thanks for the response, appreciate it.