Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 2008 22:01:24 -0700
Reply-To:     Rob <becida@COMCAST.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Rob <becida@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: [NVC] Engineers: quick and cheerful vibration analysis?
Comments: To: Mike Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <4899232A.8030806@gmail.com>
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At  8/5/2008 09:06 PM, Mike Elliott wrote:
>This is a question for the engineering geeks here.
>
>Say you were towing a little trailer behind your Vanagon. Say that the
>trailer had a rudimentary suspension consisting only of leaf
>springs. Okay, so say you had a laptop computer
>(WinXP) which could ride in the passenger seat, and /three/ business days
>in which to acquire the needed sensor (accelerometer?) as well as the
>software to display the ride bounciness.
>
>Could it be done?

Wow, you have a lot of time on your hands, On my moves I never had
enough spare time to scratch.
It's what, a 15-17 hr drive around 900 miles from San Diego to Bend?

Good luck!




Rob
becida@comcast.net
In western WA with an '84 Westy and a summer before me (well part of
it's left...)