Hi Byron,
At 09:14 AM 5/8/00 -0700, Byron Short wrote:
>Steve has the adjustment method exactly right, John. The
>fact that your map is "too straight" and the speed is too
>high both indicate that you need to go to adjustments and
>decrease end speed. Do this until the shape of the map
>looks closer to you. In most cases, I bet most of us use
>just this one primary adjustment.
Thanks - that seems to be the concensus (several private e-mails
said similar things), but it is good to get it from you, too.
I spent so much time at the end of last season fussing with
end speeds and not getting useful results due to my mis-calibration
problems that I sorta panicked last night when I got the same
sort of traces that I had been seeing last year. I'll play
with the traces tonight and see if I can't get some useful data
out of this set of runs. I was really looking forward to this
set of data since this was one of the first times that I'd been
able to collect data from a co-driver and wanted to compare our
runs.
>please don't do it until you've done the primary adjustment
>of the end-speed above.
OK - I'll do that first.
>Also, don't worry about calibration numbers under 250 or
>so. So a 149 is okay. <snip> Numbers from 250 down
>are believable, and numbers from 0-150 are pretty normal.
Great, thanks; I was a bit worried that the 149 might be too
high.
BTW, is it common to get end speeds of 50 mph and above? Is
there something that I can do to get more reasonable numbers
right away?
Thanks very much,
John Lye
rjl6n@Virginia.edu
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