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Will gyros replace "fin" stabilizers on larger boats?
Eisboch wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote in message ... "Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... Interesting video. I wonder how it affects bow-to-stern movement? It is a gyro - seems to me that if it has that much of an effect on side-to-side roll, it would have the same effect on bow-to-stern movement.. The gyro vacuum enclosure appears to be mechanically restricted to fore and aft gimble movement, so I suspect it stabilizes on one axis only. How the fore and aft movement translates to stabilizing beam to beam I think has something to do with the principles of gyroscopic progression, similar to helecopter controls of blade pitch. But, I might be wrong. Eisboch I've been studying the drawing of the system and thinking about it. I think I know how it works. Pretty clever. When the boat starts to rock, the spinning gyro exerts a force opposite to the boat's rocking direction. That force is coupled to the beam located in the boat (probably a stringer) that either lifts or pushes on it to counteract the direction of the "rock". Eisboch And then the boat cracks open and sinks... |
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