Originally Posted by: ONR RoadRunner 
Originally Posted by: Duke Odyssey 
Originally Posted by: ONR RoadRunner 
Originally Posted by: Duke Odyssey 
Originally Posted by: ONR RoadRunner 
46% is 23/50 as a fraction, also 0.46 as a decimal.
There is no problem with the Maths. Depends on which "bright spark" knows what a percentage is as a decimal.
As i said using your example ((46%(1422)*9.8)/(73.7*3.5^2)) + 1 gives me 1.4993215739484396
But when i remove the % and use 0.46 instead ((0.46(1422)*9.8)/(73.7*3.5^2)) + 1 i get the correct result
The setting are too soft for my liking after testing it on a couple of cars so its no big loss i will stick to setting my own dampers but i was interested in getting the math working to see what results it gave.
You do know that 46% can be expressed as a decimal which is 0.46?
Thus both are correct - Your just typing in something wrong!
THE MATHS ISN'T WRONG!
And the settings vary for each car. If your testing these settings on R Class and above, they don't work as good. So I'm going to tweak the formula and include downforce.
RR
I didnt type the formula in I copied and pasted the example from your post straight into the calculator to make sure I got the same answer so I didnt type anything wrong. Yes I know that the setting vary for each car once I got the formula to work I changed the values to match whatever car I was tuning for and as I said they are too soft for my liking so no big deal I will carry on tuning the dampers myself.
That's your problem there, "I copied and pasted the example from your post straight into the calculator to make sure I got the same answer." This wont give you the right answer! You have to input the values yourself, not copy and paste it, LOL!
I copied and pasted your example to make sure the answer given was the same as the answer in your example if it was then I know that I needed to replace the figures with the figures from the car I wanted to tune.
Try this copy and paste your first example into the calculator
http://www.picalc.com/ then look at the answer given its not the same as your example answer so the formula didnt work so
i changed to % to 0.46
Your formula on the first page the answer should be 8.1 per your example but isnt (ive said this all along): ((46%(1422)*9.8)/(73.7*3.5^2)) + 1 this gives 1.4993215739484396 as the answer which isnt the same as your answer in your example so the formula is wong
Now paste this into the calculator ((0.46(1422)*9.8)/(73.7*3.5^2)) + 1 and you will get the correct answer of 8.1 as per your example. So copy and pasing
does work the formula just needed changing to make it work.
Why your example doesnt work but removing the % and changing the 46% to 0.46 makes it work I dont know but anyway as ive said the setting are too soft for my liking I perfer a stiffer setup both springs and dampers.
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