Re: Re: Calibrating a Torque meter question

From: William Gowen <wdgowen_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 20:51:02 -0400

Yep - they work fine. But my two spring meters haven't been out of the
house for 2 or 3 years.

Here's another thought about calibrated meters. If you're flying one or two
events maybe you can keep track of what it means when your meter says "4".
I fly 4 events as seriously as i can. I'm constantly changing motor sizes
either due to experimenting or due to site conditions or because all my
good ones are broken. My brain is too addled to try to keep all that
information straight without help. One of the ways that I use to keep
things straight is the spreadsheet I use to keep my flight data. Before I
wind a motor I enter the length and weight into the spreadsheet. The
spreadsheet calculates the maximum turns and maximum torque for that motor.
It calculates the torque in in-oz - not in some random system of units. So
I need a meter that reads in in-oz.

Here's one more thing before I get off my soapbox. At Kent this year the
difference between a hung A6 flight and a winning A6 flight was .005 in-oz.
I'm not sure I could have read my Flintstone spring meter that accurately.
On Sep 5, 2012 7:44 PM, "Mark F1diddler" <f1diddler_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

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> --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "art" <upwind120_at_...> wrote:
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> Yahbuh dabbadoo. Flintstone meters have functioned for decades, and it
> remains to be seen which style is the more practical. Probably digital will
> win for most users, just like with everything else digital. But my Betty
> Rubble Model doesn't need batteries, and she will function through an EMP.
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Received on Wed Sep 05 2012 - 17:51:04 CEST