At 09:32 PM 5/9/98 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 98-05-09 15:47:56 EDT, you write:
>
><< (Would turn your car
> into a rolling dyno...) It'll allow you to correct for weather and stuff
>too. Of
> course, it'll give you 0-60 and 1/4 mile like the g-tech but also 1/8 mile,
>etc >>
>
>Cooool, I have done some tinkering in electronis stuff, even have a couple of
>bread boards lying around but you lost me in the microprocesser part fer
>shurr, but if you figure it out and get up a parts list a info then I'd bet on
>my being able to hack one out. How the heck do those things one where the end
>of the 1/4 mile is, it just blows my mind as to how it can figure out this
>stufff.
>
It uses the acceleration, basically. It can convert acceleration
into velocity. Distance is velocity * time, so you just have to keep
track of the time, and you'll know the distance you've travelled at all
times. Then ya just stop the timer when you get to 1/4 mile...
-Jon-
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