Interfacing Arduino UNO with a motor-propeller setup in order to measure values

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Hello,

I am trying to build my own thrust test stand for a motor-propeller setup in order to test for values of thrust, RPM, and temperature. The reason why I would like to build it instead of buy is because buying a dynamometer for a motor of my size is very expensive.

The motor I intend to test is a 60V brushless DC motor that can have 36 kg of thrust. It has dimensions of 147.5 x 64 mm. It will hold a propeller 40 in. in diameter.

My intention is to build something similar to these projects:

My questions are the following:

  1. Is it possible to do something like this, scaling up the projects I linked above using Arduino? Is 60V too high a voltage for a 5V Arduino microcontroller? And if so what are my options with regards to usiing other microcontrollers for this project?

  2. Based on the attachments above, here are the components I hope to use in order to measure the parameters listed above:

  • For measuring thrust: using a 50kg load cell interfaced with HX711 Load Amplifier, wherein I can read off the values off the serial monitor or attach to an LCD

  • For measuring RPM: using Laser TX/RX as in the github link above

  • For measuring temperature: a temperature sensor, like a thermistor, or instead just using a temperature gun

  1. I intend to integrate all these components on a breadboard as I am unfamiliar with designing PCBs. Is this the right approach?
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