Incidence meters

[Jerry Budd]

>ORLANDO FRETS wrote:
>
>>I'm looking to buy an incidence meter. Can anyone shed some 
>>experience with the Great Plane laser and the Robart type. Which is 
>>a good recommendation?
>>
>>
>
>Get Jerry Budd's laser meter.  It's not cheap, but is very good.
>
>Ron Van Putte


Hey Ron,

I appreciate the plug but I'd like to point out to everybody that my 
laser meter doesn't do incidences, only control surface deflections 
(however, it does measure control surface deflections considerably 
more accurately than anything else available!).

Every couple of weeks I get a request to develop a laser based 
incidence meter using the clip-on laser module that is packaged with 
my system.  I generally wind up explaining that there are fundamental 
differences between measuring incidences and control surface 
deflections that require somewhat different approaches to solving the 
problem.

Unfortunately, measuring incidences accurately with a laser is more 
involved than most people realize.  One of these days I'll come up 
with a reasonably elegant solution to the problem, but until then 
there's nothing really great available.

Thx, Jerry
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Jerry Budd
Budd Engineering
http://www.buddengineering.com
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