I have a braking resistor attached to a system with a large rotational inertia. Everything works fine in terms of startup, rundown and normal operation. I would, however, like to investigate whether I could in reality install a smaller breaking resistor.
I do acknowledge the math behind the initial dimensioning of a given system, but would like to measure how much is "left in the tank" of my breaking resistor. Both during start up, rundown, and especially during normal operation (in my case, the breaking resistor breaks the system for each and every cycle that the flyweights rotate due to a very specific control requirement). Is this possible? Measure amps? Temperature? Other things?