Abstract
Marine shaft power measurement is believed to assess the working condition for marine propulsion system. The traditional equipment uses battery-powered supply but could provide only 2-4 hours continuous monitoring time. To address this issue, a new shaft power measurement technique based on magnetic resonances is proposed in this paper. It was able to transfer 70mA over distances in the range of 5 to 20 millimeters. We experimentally demonstrated efficient power transfer over the self-resonant coils in the transmitter to the receiving end in order to achieve the transfer of energy. It is shown that the strain-type measurement using the magnetic resonances technique produces superior results to those using battery-powered measurements, and thus has application importance.
