Alan B
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| posted on 20/2/09 at 08:51 PM |
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Anyone familiar with active shocks?
I believe they work by electronically altering the valving on the fly about 1000 times per second.....wondered if anyone knew about them at all.
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SteveWalker
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| posted on 20/2/09 at 09:36 PM |
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Don't know much about them, but I remember seeing a programme about autonomous robotic vehicles and a HUMV in that used active dampers that were
filled with a fluid that changed viscosity in a magnetic field and were controlled with electromagnets.
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Mark Allanson
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| posted on 20/2/09 at 09:48 PM |
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The Lada system would be the easiest to copy, there is a switch built into the drivers seat, if your ass actually loses contact, the dampers soften up
a bit.
If you can keep you head, whilst all others around you are losing theirs, you are not fully aware of the situation
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Alan B
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| posted on 20/2/09 at 10:28 PM |
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Steve,
The ones you refer to are the magneto rheological fluid dampers....the ones I'm thinking of use regular oil but alter the valve aperture
instead.
Mark,
I'm not actually thinking of copying it...but that's a good guess.....no, actually I have an interview at the company that makes
them...
Wish me luck..
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matt_gsxr
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| posted on 20/2/09 at 11:31 PM |
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You could read this.
http://www.search-autoparts.com/searchautoparts/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=68222
It is american, but the science is international.
Good work to do some pre-interview research, and good luck.
Matt
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Alan B
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| posted on 21/2/09 at 12:11 AM |
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Good link, cheers Matt
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Steve Hignett
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| posted on 21/2/09 at 01:57 AM |
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There are these fellows. If this is any use?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSi6J-QK1lw
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Fred W B
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| posted on 21/2/09 at 04:48 AM |
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quote:
shocks
quote:
no, actually I have an interview at the company that makes them...
Hi Alan - hope you are going to call them "dampers" at the interview
Cheers
Fred W B
You can do it quickly. You can do it cheap. You can do it right. – Pick any two.
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Alan B
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| posted on 22/2/09 at 03:20 PM |
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Funny you should say that Fred as they seem to use both words...shocks and dampers on the website. You are right of course that damper is correct.
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