Distance vs. Weight

David C. Stanwood stanwood at tiac.net
Sat Oct 11 11:35:39 MDT 2008


DavidS Wrote:

>     "The efficiency will show up in you final  Balance Weights....  If
>     your spec BW was 38 and you end up with an average level of 38 then
>     your distance ratio matches your weight ratio and the efficiency
>     ratio is 1.0.  If you end up with and average result of 36 then
>     you've got a super efficient setup and your efficiency ratio is
>     above 1.0.  If your average BW ends up say 40 then your efficiency
>     ratio is below 1.0 and the setup would benefit with some tweaking."

RicB Wrote:

>... then it would appear that plugging a good estimate of the distance
>ratio into your equation of balance is just the thing to do. That way BW
>not only serves as a diagnostic for key to key ratio problems but as a
>diagnostic and indeed yeilds a direct value for the efficiency ratio.

The wonders never cease!

Thanks Ric,

David Stanwood


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