Well, I have analyzed your rant with the meter running. I was hoping for more of a twang. Or at least greater clamping down upon Ordinary Seaman Taylor. Sadly, sadly, I must say that I cannot relinquish my curmudgeonly title to such an unfrequently hard squeeze on A.T over the use of FA. O.K?
TFlan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Tutelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 2:21 PM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Frequency meters and deflection boards > TFlan, can I be curmudgeon for a day? > I know I won't do nearly as good a job as you but... > > At 04:36 PM 2/5/03 -0500, Al Taylor wrote: > >...I would be curious what frequency variations you got by varying the > >clamp pressure around a given pressure of say 50 Lbs. Or something that > >would be considered a normal FA clamp pressure. Or say the differences > >from 30 Lbs to 75 Lbs. Just looking for some idea of what the various > >FA's would demonstrate given their "normal" clamp pressure differences. > > I sat there for close to a minute, wondering what the hell an "FA" was. > Then it hit me: "Frequency Analyzer". What a crock! It's a frequency METER! > All it does is return a single number, the frequency at which a shaft is > vibrating. That's no "analyzer", it's a meter. > > As an EE, I've seen plenty of devices that go by the name "frequency > analyzer" and deserve it. In every case, their minimum functionality is to > plot a full frequency characteristic of a complex signal or system. By > analogy, if a clubmaker's tool did a frequency profile for a shaft, > plotting zone frequencies at 1" intervals for the length of the shaft, that > would pass for a frequency ANALYZER. But not the products on the market > today, no way. > > Apparently the folks selling frequency meters are really into verbal > aggrandizement. :-P > > End of rant. > > DaveT >
