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Noah Little wrote:
You can be pretty sure it wasn't intentional. When you're programming with variables, it can happen that one of them becomes zero due to unforseen conditions. Of course, a wizardly programmer will both forsee the possibility of those conditions and also include tests to trap errors (like zeros in embarrassing places), but sometimes in the old days memory was extremely tight, not permitting such "luxuries," and then not all programmers are wizards. I'm inclined to think early marques of the AIM 9 used analog computing rather than 1s and 0s. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 07:40:35 -0700, Eunometic wrote
(in article .com): Dozens more in my copy of 'electronic analog computers by Korn and Korn of 1956 I think I have Volume II but it is in storage. Is that the complete name? (Love analog). I have an initial condition/gain block in storage as well. 100 ten turn Beckman pots with a bunch of shafts and clutches to set them up for a specific solution. -- Charlie Springer |
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On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 07:40:35 -0700, Eunometic wrote
(in article .com): The limitation of the AM seeker lies in the performance of the AM detection (here x-axis) circuits, as the average signal from the detector becomes quite weak in one direction thus producing poor tracking performance in this axis. A scheme to resolve this is what is termed frequency modulation (FM), whereby the number of spokes varies with the radial distance from the centre of the reticle. What do you call the no spokes version where you need to know the angular position of the reticle? Say, from a synchronous motor's phase. I tried to make one for tracking stars once long ago with a PMT. I still want to make one work. -- Charlie Springer |
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Do you have more data on the nature of the divide by zero? I beleive it was a structrural problem not an electronic problem Remember the fix was to place a crossmember in the missile. |
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Charlie Springer wrote: On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 07:40:35 -0700, Eunometic wrote (in article .com): The limitation of the AM seeker lies in the performance of the AM detection (here x-axis) circuits, as the average signal from the detector becomes quite weak in one direction thus producing poor tracking performance in this axis. A scheme to resolve this is what is termed frequency modulation (FM), whereby the number of spokes varies with the radial distance from the centre of the reticle. What do you call the no spokes version where you need to know the angular position of the reticle? Say, from a synchronous motor's phase. I tried to make one for tracking stars once long ago with a PMT. I still want to make one work. -- Charlie Springer I'm not sure I understand what you mean. There were 'rossete scans' that ended up in latter versions of sidewinder thse use a sort of rotating and oscialting mirror. These also ended up in early German infrared seekers intended for terminal homing on the Wasserfall missile but actually derived from infrared imaging systems such as "Spanner". The Basic AM seekers consists of a rotating transparent disk the half segment of which is 'greyed' out with a fine speckled pattern of dots to let in half the infrared light, the other half might consist of a few dozen spokes. As it rotatres the infrared image produces either a steady flat signal from the greyed portion or a series of high frequency pulses from the spokes. The average instensity is the same. A low pass and high pass filter distinquises the two and the phase relative to the position of the disk determin the angle though not the distance from the center. In one of the German versions intended for the X-4 missile the disk did not rotate but the whole missile did instead. A single gyroscope spun up at launch by a gramm of gunpowder acting through a commutator kept track of "up" Sidewinder I believe never had gyroscopes but used little wind driven turbines in the tail acting as gyroscopes that mechanically acted on little tail elevators to roll stabalise the missile. It rotated so slowly it didn't matter to the seeker. Brilliant. FM seekers are like AM ones only have another ring (or two or three) with a different spoke pattern around the disk to widen the acquisition angle but make the tracking more precise. I think rossete scans took over a long time ago due to their higher resistence to jamming and now imaging array systems. The British Redtop missile (used on the lighting inteceptor) used a different more sophisticated pattern. Its rotating disk 12 scimitar spokes each of which had a different curve and width to the scimitar as it widened toward the periphery. Thus the phase determined the angle and the 'length' of the pulse the distance from the central axis. I guess you'd call it 'phase modulation'. I guess you could used 4 infrard photodetector arranged in a pie shape, you even buy these from electronics suppliers such as RS components, but the usual problem with these is that each must have exactly the same gain and chracteristics. |
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In article , nafod40 wrote:
niceguy wrote: What idiot would attempt to divide by zero? God. That's how we get black holes. I'd like to see that equation. -- Harry Andreas Engineering raconteur |
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On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 22:39:21 -0700, Eunometic wrote
(in article . com): I'm not sure I understand what you mean. There were 'rossete scans' that ended up in latter versions of sidewinder thse use a sort of rotating and oscialting mirror. These also ended up in early German infrared seekers intended for terminal homing on the Wasserfall missile but actually derived from infrared imaging systems such as "Spanner". There is a tracker form with a reticule that is half transparent and half opaque and spun by a synchronous motor, so there is a reference for the position of the reticle over time. The amount of time and the angle over which the target is obscured generates the error signal. When perfectly centered the signal is constant (half is always blocked). If I could center it well enough, I could half mask the secondary of a Cassigrain and spin it. I just find the analog solution more satisfying than a digital image tracker. I thought the turbine wheels in the fins of the Sidewinder were stabilizers and generators, so it didn't need any batteries. I may be thinking of something else. -- Charlie Springer |
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On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 22:39:21 -0700, Eunometic wrote
(in article . com): I'm not sure I understand what you mean. There were 'rossete scans' that ended up in latter versions of sidewinder thse use a sort of rotating and oscialting mirror. These also ended up in early German infrared seekers intended for terminal homing on the Wasserfall missile but actually derived from infrared imaging systems such as "Spanner". The slots or pattern may have formed the front end of a chopper amplifier, which was the common way to work with infrared sources in the instrument business at the time. Was there an internal reference IR source and detector and a difference circuit? This might elliminate ECM and other common mode noise. -- Charlie Springer |
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Charlie Springer wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 22:39:21 -0700, Eunometic wrote (in article . com): I'm not sure I understand what you mean. There were 'rossete scans' that ended up in latter versions of sidewinder thse use a sort of rotating and oscialting mirror. These also ended up in early German infrared seekers intended for terminal homing on the Wasserfall missile but actually derived from infrared imaging systems such as "Spanner". There is a tracker form with a reticule that is half transparent and half opaque and spun by a synchronous motor, so there is a reference for the position of the reticle over time. The amount of time and the angle over which the target is obscured generates the error signal. When perfectly centered the signal is constant (half is always blocked). If I could center it well enough, I could half mask the secondary of a Cassigrain and spin it. I just find the analog solution more satisfying than a digital image tracker. I thought the turbine wheels in the fins of the Sidewinder were stabilizers and generators, so it didn't need any batteries. I may be thinking of something else. Not generators. The AIM-9B-J used a gas-grain generator for power. Guy |
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Harry Andreas wrote: In article , nafod40 wrote: niceguy wrote: What idiot would attempt to divide by zero? God. That's how we get black holes. I'd like to see that equation. I think its not to hard to derive. If gravity is so high that escape velocity (eg for a missile) excedes the speed of light you get it. The fitgerald-lorentz contraction equations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FitzGer...tz_Contraction Square root of (1-(v^2/C^2)) produces infinit contraction at this speed. I.E. light can't escape and objects have zero lenght and infinite mass. |
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