Posted by: Dave Hall on May 18, 2003 at 14:32:28

As most of you are aware, valve response time dominates the performance of our guns. Unfortunately, we often know virtually zero tech data about the valves. Thus, the largest factor in our designs are the largest unknowns! This has bothered me for some time but I really didn't spend too much time worrying about that which I could do nothing about. That may have changed. Last night my uncle - who happens to make his living doing instrumentation at an military gun lab (ie, capturing data on FAST events) - asked me why I'd not instrumented my gun yet. I commented that I'd neither the equipment nor the know how. He just smiled and said something to the effect of, "I do." Short version is that I may be running some fully instrumented tests at reasonable data rates (figure 10-20 ksps ought to do) to get some good data on my gun. This data should be of some use to others.

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