I'm confused Gunny. I pulled down both this trace and the one for your new proto-type in the other thread. I scaled them very closely and overlayed one on the other. The
baseline graphs look like two different platforms. Perhaps a new one and one that has broken in more, or one dry and dirty and one cleaned and lubed. There appears to be both a different sampling rate and post sampling hardware and/or software filtering and/or simple averaging. While they mainly impact finer data range transitions, I was trying to reverse the graphical point coordinates and crunch them to sum the area of the positive pulses and the negative pulses to compare for an overall quality factor as well as the individual big events that are caught. It's all very cool technology to play with and draw conclusions from. Imagine what the big boys have at their disposal? I spent 15 years in Aerospace Test Engineering with random and linear vibe generators, transducers, environmental chambers, etc. We had to test and documented product performance (or failure) for Navy fighter jet computers, air to air missile computers and radar targeting computers for the 20mm Phalanx System and it was a ton of fun. Broke my heart to get "workforce reduced" after 15 years so the company could make a quarterly profit statement. They didn't last much longer though, but it was still stressful re-entering the labor market at age 42. Hoot yet again digresses....
All that having been said, you don't need to crunch the raw data mathematically (though it would be nice) to visualize the change of period of the first recoil pulse due to the added weight in the bolt, or it's effect on bolt bounce as well as smaller nuance changes.
From your experience so far, is it more maddening to try and A) optimize each of the finite elements such as the brake, optimum carrier (or buffer) mass, buffer spring weight and active delay line stock individually for their impact upon recoil and then try to merge their characteristics, or to B) try them all lumped together and then optimize each one's characteristic for the ultimate good of the combined package's resulting trace, or is it more A) first, B) second, back to A) then B), etc?
Hoot
