(Jan. 03, 2017 5:40 AM)bdablader95 Wrote: Sorry for the double post, but it has been a LONG time since I touched this lol.
It comes with great sadness that I will NOT be able to test the Sword launcher. Today I started my tests after a long delay and was met with an obvious surprise:
THE SWORD LAUNCHER ISN'T RELIABLE.
It jams way too much and because of that, its impossible to get ANY accurate readings. I've disassembled, greased, and even removed the limiter on it and it STILL jams.
After rough testing without any math, the Speed Launcher and Long Winder seem to be the best. Stay tuned for more.
Wait. When you say you removed the limiter. What do you mean by that? Like which part in particular.
Also I was thinking about this about a month ago. The difference in performance from the different gear ratios would be outweighed by the string length and time to pull ratio.
That might not make sense so I'll run numbers.
Let's say we have
Launcher A has a 2:3 gear ratio
Launcher B has a 3:4 gear ratio
Launcher C has a 4:5 gear ratio
Now if they all had the same string length and you pulled them all at the same speed Launcher A would have the higher RPM and that'd correspond to the Heavy launcher IF they had the same string length. The problem is that their actual string lengths are very different and although I don't factor in time I can assume that everyone would fully extend the spring around roughly a second regardless of which launcher they use.So what's this all mean?
tl;dr String length is probably going to affect RPM more than gear ratio, esp if you can extend the string especially fast.
(P.S. if anyone wants to take apart launchers and count the teeth on the gears I can give like actual numerical comparisons)