I came up with a bunch of contraptions menatlly though never built any of
them.
The two that made the most sense to me where a cylinder with water, a piston
and a coil spring inside. As you pull on the end of the cylider it forces
the water out into a tank and compresses the spring wound to have an
increasing rate as it is compressed. as the load is reduced the cylinder
goes back and water refills it from the tank. A great big shock.
The other thing was two counter rotating drums with friction material
between them. The tow line is fed out of each drum(2 of them tied to the
chute, turning each drum in an opposite direction. Turns the energy into
heat. You could use one drum and a fixed frition device but seemed to make
the load asymentrical and I don't think you want that.
Dave
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-land-speed@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-land-speed@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of DrMayf
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 9:34 AM
> To: John Goodman; land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Chute Forces (1)
>
>
> Hey! I never thought of that. I have the data and there is a monsterous
> spike right before shutdown. And that is in a car at only 200 mph and a
> short tow line. A bagged stroud chute might work better to relieve some of
> the jerk. I would like to see a system that lets the chute blossom right
> immediately after deploy then pay out the tow line. Like on a big
> reel with
> a wind up spring or torsion bar...Dave D, are you listening?
>
> mayf
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Goodman" <ggl205@yahoo.com>
> To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 5:23 AM
> Subject: Re: Chute Forces (1)
>
>
> > If you want to see evidence of a deployed chute spike,
> > ask Turk for his Maxton QwikData files. Print the
> > histograms for his front and rear potentiometers. The
> > spike is quite evident.
> >
> > John Goodman
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