Hello everyone, I'm new here
I'm not very experienced with electronic & electrical systems formally, so I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but here goes.
I want a unit that will monitor and display certain information of an electrical circuit's cycle as it is in operation.
Here's how the cycle goes; non powered, there is a steel bar attached to a flat steel spring that holds to a frame. The spring forces the steel bar away from a pair of electromagnets. Attached to the steel bar is a second spring, that makes contact with an adjustable contact point, which is compressed in this non powered state.
When power is applied to the circuit, the magnets draw the steel bar away from the contact point, breaking the circuit and causing the force of the spring pressure to return the steel bar to the contact point, starting the cycle again.
During this cycle, there is an "open contact" time, where there is no electrical contact. It is the time from when the contact spring leaves the contact point, while the steel bar is on it's way to the magnet's surface and then back until the contact spring makes contact with the contact point again from the force of the frame spring.
There is also a "closed contact" time, when the spring contacts the contact point, through the spring compression cycle, until the contact is broken again on the steel bar's return to the magnet.
This takes place in the 100 to 150hz
range, but I'm not sure if that is the correct use of hz for this forum, as I think the "hz" in my sense might be cycles per second.
Sorry for my naivety, but I've not been to school for this stuff, yet
Anyway, I would like to know if there are any devices readily accessible that would be able to accomplish this.
I would like to be able to read the frequency(cycles per second/hz?), open contact time, closed contact time, and/or a relationship between those last 2, as a combination of the 2 is equal to 1 complete cycle, and finally any chatter or skips in the voltage during the closed contact time(spring compression and release).
And if not, how difficult would it be to make a unit capable of this?