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Strain gauge flyline / running line

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Lee Cummings
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VGB wrote:
Lee Cummings wrote:
Merlin wrote: Unfortunately, we have no mean today to measure line tension at tip level during a real cast and tell us what really happens. Casting with overhang seems however to confirm that a disconnection / compression phase can occur.

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Maybe one day someone could somehow engineer these into a fly line...

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Lee
Fitting them is the easy part, getting the data from the gauge to your recording device is the challenge :D
Could it be possible......?

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You could but the line would weight 6lb
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Loving that glib dismissive reply Vince. Nice to see standards in the Tech section are being maintained.
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Magnus wrote:Loving that glib dismissive reply Vince. Nice to see standards in the Tech section are being maintained.
Perhaps asking for an explanation would be more productive and conducive to conversation. Sometimes it is hard to go into detail on a mobile device.

Weight would still be an issue. Even with small circuit items you still need to have power, support circuitry, container, recording or sending device, etc.

Making an entire line out of strain gauges would also be expensive. Having a few at key locations would be more likely but one at the fly end would still be heavy because it would have to stand up to casting.
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The T3000. That would keep the attention of the score boys. Stop for a quick chat or a smoke and BAM - instant death!
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What is the T3000?
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It's the 3000 Gram event Walter.
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Okay. If 3000 grams is castable, and I know Lasse can cast a rubber chicken, it should be possible to do something smaller than a rubber chicken and weighing less than 3000 gm. Probably could be under 6 pounds.

My thoughts are that making one loooooong strain gauge would be expensive and problematic. Two or three strategically placed could work if they didn't cause hingeing.

I'm also thinking that rather than using an rf transmitter or digital storage that a multicolour led could save a lot of weight. Record in slow motion and use colour to see the current strain...
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Lee Cummings wrote:
Maybe one day someone could somehow engineer these into a fly line...

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Lee
Fitting them is the easy part, getting the data from the gauge to your recording device is the challenge :D[/quote]


Easy. Attach specified length of fly line to one side of the strain gauge, attach appropriately sized wire to the other using that instead of fly line on the reel side, and to download the data. It would have limited lifespan before the wire broke, but you'd get a few casts out of it.
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Measuring at the rod tip would be fairly easy. Trying to get midline or fly end readings gets harder.
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