PAST CT fall GTG Nov 5th 2016

[Lee H]

Yes he doe's, Seen a few of his videos.

 

[paragonbuilder]

Guys there is a chance John Reilly from Florida may come up to see us if he can work it into his schedule. Here is one of his recent videos of a ridiculously fast solo:

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That would be so cool!

 

[paragonbuilder]

5 days to go!
Who's bringing what for food?
Drf255 is bringing burgers and dogs, Fresh bread and fresh mozzarella which was incredible last time. And tuna tartar!
Richevy is bring macaroni salad
Canadian farm boy, water and pop and some chips
Mattyo $$$
Malk315 $$$
SOS Ridgerider, coleslaw, buns and cheese for burgers and dogs.
Boozer something whipped up!
Please quote and add what you are bringing so it's in a list.

 

[RI Chevy]

Anything specific that you would like Dan? That isn't on the list.

 

[RI Chevy]

Whew. That Solo 7910 really whips. Real nice.

 

[malk315]

Texting back and fourth with John. He's considering coming up Friday and going home Sunday. Would just need ride from airport. I could fetch him Friday.

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[wcorey]

Eric, bring the dyno electronics along.
Nothing certain but I may have the latest setup ready to at least try out by then.
Cobbled together some usable hydraulics, have spun it up but haven't gone as far as setting up the RPi to look at the load cell data.

 

[Deets066]

Eric, bring the dyno electronics along.
Nothing certain but I may have the latest setup ready to at least try out by then.
Cobbled together some usable hydraulics, have spun it up but haven't gone as far as setting up the RPi to look at the load cell data.

 

[malk315]

Eric, bring the dyno electronics along.
Nothing certain but I may have the latest setup ready to at least try out by then.
Cobbled together some usable hydraulics, have spun it up but haven't gone as far as setting up the RPi to look at the load cell data.

Oh my! I will do that Bill. Will be major interested just to see the raw load cell data how much or little vibration from noise.

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[Mattyo]

just gotta get through this work week! then its ON gents!

 

[wcorey]

Will be major interested just to see the raw load cell data how much or little vibration from noise.

Yup, you and me both. I'm a little apprehensive about it, the pressure gauge needle was jumping around more than I liked.
Just haven't had time to do it, have been putting all my available resources into the hardware, kind of an 11th hour effort as usual.
More than a few late nights...

 

[RI Chevy]

Thanks for all your hard work guys! It is greatly appreciated.
This dyno thing is awesome.

 

[malk315]

Yup, you and me both. I'm a little apprehensive about it, the pressure gauge needle was jumping around more than I liked.
Just haven't had time to do it, have been putting all my available resources into the hardware, kind of an 11th hour effort as usual.
More than a few late nights...

Even if all we do is collect load cell data at the latest rate of 400 samples per second I can plot that and compare to the graph I did a ways back. You and the other guys would know better than me, but perhaps the gauge needle is just suffering from vibration and it's not so bad -- one way to know I guess would be to have a digital gauge instead of one w/ a needle. My electronics are essentially a digital gauge so that will help.

Below is the graph from a while back -- pretty tough as a human to see the proper curve line.
I'll bet the new setup will be a big improvement! Even if we still have to do some software filtering to clean it up it will still be a huge improvement. What's nice is we can try different filter sizes by just changing parameters on the web interface.

One thing I won't have time to change before then is auto collection criteria and dealing with duplicate points -- the motorcyle brake created a nice curve of RPM whereas a needle valve we will probably have dwell points that we won't want in the output graph (creating flat spots in the curve). Worst case I can save the data from various testing and create the graphs later on by post-processing. Then I can add to the software to automatically deal with the new dynamics of it -- the hydraulic setup w/ needle valve. I plan to have all data runs save the raw data so when it comes time to adapt to @Dieselshawn setup, any post processing to deal with the data can be tweaked from the saved raw data.

 

[paragonbuilder]

Yup, you and me both. I'm a little apprehensive about it, the pressure gauge needle was jumping around more than I liked.
Just haven't had time to do it, have been putting all my available resources into the hardware, kind of an 11th hour effort as usual.
More than a few late nights...

Bill, if it's too jumpy maybe we can use a hydraulic accumulator as a dampener to even it out.

 

[RI Chevy]

Dan. I can bring a few blank CD's so we can copy the media cat stuff. Is that OK?

 

[paragonbuilder]

Dan. I can bring a few blank CD's so we can copy the media cat stuff. Is that OK?

That would be good. Maybe Eric can do it for us on his laptop? I'm computerless at the moment...

 

[RI Chevy]

Lol. Ok. Eric: Is it possible to copy the media cat CD with your computer?
@malk315

 

[Canadian farm boy]

Is anybody else starting to get ready for next weekend?

I'm nearly ready. Just have a few more small tasks to do and I'll be ready to go

 

[RI Chevy]

Lol. A little anxious are you?
I am just about all ready. Got the saws ready and fueled.
I am looking forward to this. Last years was really awesome. Putting faces to names. Getting to know everyone. And running some really good saws.
Since I went last year with my 2 stock saws, Lol, I bought a JMS Saws ported MS440, and a drf255 ported 026. They are truly amazing. I am just a rookie compared to everyone else.

 

[Canadian farm boy]

Lol. A little anxious are you? .

Lol. I spent most of this past weekend sharpening chains and checking over saws. Still have to change the oil in my truck plus a few other things.
Monday-Friday are really busy around my place. Kids have things going on most nights and my wife and I both work. I try and do what I can when the time allows. Busy, busy