paulkish
old fart
awwwwwww, a new page and a fresh look at gear ratios. ...
Let's be open minded and try a different road.
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I never had a fancy data logger on a kart, but many of you have them, Micron, etc..
Can you take the data from one and graph acceleration or the whole kart around the track?
Can you make a run with one gear set, graph it on paper and then do the same with another gear set?
You could then put one paper on top of the other and shine a light through, to see if the graphs are the same. If they are then a ratio is a ratio. If there not, then different gear sets with the same ratio, give different results. It doesn't matter how different they are, what matters is are they "exactly" the same or not.
Could you do it for the whole distance around the track and also compare multiple graphs of each gear set, even to each other? The graphs will either be the same or they will be different. There's no generally the same or interpreted the same, straight forward there either the same or not.
My moneys on a difference and my backup bet's on getting a lot of but, but, but and butts. ...
Let's be open minded and try a different road.
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I never had a fancy data logger on a kart, but many of you have them, Micron, etc..
Can you take the data from one and graph acceleration or the whole kart around the track?
Can you make a run with one gear set, graph it on paper and then do the same with another gear set?
You could then put one paper on top of the other and shine a light through, to see if the graphs are the same. If they are then a ratio is a ratio. If there not, then different gear sets with the same ratio, give different results. It doesn't matter how different they are, what matters is are they "exactly" the same or not.
Could you do it for the whole distance around the track and also compare multiple graphs of each gear set, even to each other? The graphs will either be the same or they will be different. There's no generally the same or interpreted the same, straight forward there either the same or not.
My moneys on a difference and my backup bet's on getting a lot of but, but, but and butts. ...
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