I have completed an arduino sketch which reads the temperature from the max31855 sensor board and also reads the current flowing through a hall sensor which will be used to measure power created by my DC motor circuit. The data is converted to string format of temperature and amperage separated by a comma and sent to serial (see below).
In labview, the data is read through UART and converted back to integer for use in my code.
Furthermore, I have added some more functionality to the Labview code for extracting essential data for storage in excel and displaying later.
Lastly, more research has been done into previous work for improving the efficiency or output power of a Stirling engine and my Literature review has been updated.
The final required addition to my work would be to create the simple circuit with the DC motor/ light build maybe and attach it somehow to the flywheel after the idle tests has been completed. The current sensor has already been set up and tested for measuring current from this circuit. The goal then would be to run the engine again for a load test while mirroring the parameters during the idle tests for analysis and comparison.
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