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by walrus01 1600 days ago
on a quadcopter or similar the useful metric is grams of thrust as measured instantaneously on a thrust stand vs watts consumed by the motor.

see users guide here for details.

https://www.tytorobotics.com/products/thrust-stand-series-15...

it's basically a load cell and an inline DC ammeter with some logging software.

usually denoted as g/w or kg/w on big things.