Posts Made By: Roland Christen

You have something other than a sphere.

Rolando

That little engine upgrade resulted in 445hp, 415Ft-Lb. I can tell you that it is a different car altogether.

The stock GT is not a bad little mover, but this super charged version is sweeeet indeeeed. The power comes on instantly from idle when the pedal is pressed all the way to redline - no place where it fades a bit or peaks. The rear wheels grab hard and propel you forward with impressive acceleration. 60mph comes on in about 4 heartbeats.

One young fellow who found out the GT is nothing to mess with came up next to me at the light with one of those raspy loud cat-back exhausts hanging off the back of his WRX STI. Young and eager to put down another Ford. I let him get about 1/2 car length ahead and then nailed it. Man, was he surprised when the GT Mustango shot by him. I could see him shifting wildly, trying to find some gear with more speed. All I could hear was my rear tires breaking loose all through first and into second gear. And the Suby got smaller and smaller in my rearview mirror.

This is the engine combo Ford should have offered all along right from the factory. The engine sounds sweet from idle to the redline. No buzzing or other strange sounds, just the growl from the exhaust and the low whine from the supercharger.

The best part is that it's quite affordable. About $5,800 and several days of bolting things on (if you're handy around cars). The thing I was most afraid of was losing my gas mileage when just cruisin'. Not to worry, the mileage is the same, around 28mpg at 65mph, but of course it can drop quickly when really flooring it for any amount of time.

Rolando

Your C14 does not focus violet very well. The lack of violet focus causes the image to take on a very slight yellow hue. The same thing is happening in your Fluorite doublet, i.e. the violet being out of focus.

Rolando

That's very nice, Broose, but I would highly recommend using dark frames. You will see a quantum jump in faint detail pop out when you have subtracted dark frames from your exposures.

Rolando

>>Should a triplet apo have symmetrical star test? How about a doublet?>>

Star test will have nothing to do with number of elements. All closely spaced lenses have sphero-chromatism, so the star test in white light will not look perfectly symmetrical. Testing in narrow band green or yellow-green light should reveal the center wavelength that the lens was nulled at. That would be the only place where the lens will have symmetry.

Longer focal ratio lenses will look more symmetrical in white light. Lenses with higher grade ED or fluorite elements will look more symmetrical also.

SWEET ride!

Rolando

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Another interesting and elusive ghost busted by Tom Davis of GBI (Ghost
Busters International).

Rolando

Here is a pix showing the supplies needed to clean this thing properly: Acetone, Baader Optical Wonder, Purosol, Balzer's Substrate Cleaner #2, Ultrajet compressed air, white Kleenex and Lint-Free Optowipes.

Rolando

The answer is direct drive to all 4 wheels using traction motors. 75 hp per wheel is enough to pin you back in your seat like no gasoline engine ever could do. Torque on a traction motor can be 2 to 3 times full rated torque at zero speed. The equivalent of 1200hp at launch

A small gas or bio-diesel engine is used to top off the electric storage device and to provide cruising energy. The storage device will be a super capacitor using nanotube technology to store and deliver instantly huge amounts of power with no chemical reactions necessary. No need to warm up a battery on freezing days, and no chemical deterioration over multiple charge/discharge cycles.

To see what's possible even now with crude 2009 technology: http://www.plasmaboyracing.com/reviews.php

The race has just begun. We are in the infancy of transportation, same as when steam power displaced sail power in the 1800's

Rolando

Theoretically the ring pattern that you see (Newton's rings) would be centered, round and stable. However, nothing is ever theoretical. The lenses have some weight and will flex to some degree, so the patterns may shift. This is especially true if the edge spacers are flimsy. It is quite possible that the lens was taken apart and the spacers were removed and discarded. The lens then was re-assembled without spacers, and thus the inner surfaces are in contact and sort of rolling around each other. Check to see that the spacers are there. There should be 3 of them at 120 degrees.

Rolando