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Date:         Mon, 6 Dec 2004 17:25:03 -0500
Reply-To:     Dennis Haynes <dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET>
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From:         Dennis Haynes <dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET>
Subject:      Re: 130 mph in a vanagon
Comments: To: Kim Brennan <kimbrennan@MAC.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <2A42D4CA-47CD-11D9-8272-000A958E5A98@mac.com>
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So, how do you explain the needle resting above the stop pin?
Optical delusion!


Dennis


-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Kim Brennan
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 4:24 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: 130 mph in a vanagon


At 120mph (just a little slower) you are doing a mile every 30 seconds.
That means the 1/10 digit should rotate 1 digit every 3 seconds. The
shutter speed on most digital cameras is  less than 1 second. That is
sufficiently fast so that the digit wouldn't be blurred.






On Dec 6, 2004, at 3:43 PM, Don Spence wrote:


> Yeh... and another thing. At that speed, that last odometer digit to
> the right would be spinning so fast it would be blurred. : >
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