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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dean,</FONT></DIV>
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size=2> What
snow?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It's only a 12" dusting.....Signed, ex Boston MA
inmate....</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You should just "get a room" for yourself and the
"tuned-pipe-pundits", then talk 2-c's and pipes until the snow melts! That
will keep you all sane! :-)))) John's RV is vacant right
now.....</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Evl-Eric.</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=d.pappas@kodeos.com href="mailto:d.pappas@kodeos.com">Dean Pappas</A>
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title=nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org
href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">NSRCA Mailing List</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 13, 2006 1:39
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Direct
Servo Drive</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=546113418-13022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Yeah, John!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=546113418-13022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>What
ever happened to the "obvious to one skilled in the art" clause?
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=546113418-13022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Maybe what is patented is the arrangement of servo-box, or extension
arm ... in any case, this falls under the heading of re-patenting the
wheel.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=546113418-13022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Granted, on a 3-D only setup, I'd hook up to the servo this
way!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=546113418-13022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=546113418-13022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>signed, snow covered in Joisey</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=546113418-13022006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>A.K.A.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Dean Pappas</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Sr. Design Engineer</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Kodeos Communications</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">111 Corporate Blvd.</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">South Plainfield, N.J. 07080</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">(908) 222-7817 phone</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">(908) 222-2392 fax</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">d.pappas@kodeos.com</FONT> </DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org
[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org]<B>On Behalf Of </B>John
Ferrell<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 13, 2006 1:30 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
NSRCA Mailing List<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Direct Servo
Drive<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If that can be worthy of a patent, the inmates
are in charge of the asylum!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>John Ferrell <BR><A
href="http://DixieNC.US">http://DixieNC.US</A><BR></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=bob@toprudder.com href="mailto:bob@toprudder.com">Bob
Richards</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 13, 2006 9:08
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NSRCA-discussion]
Direct Servo Drive</DIV>
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<DIV>My feeling exactly.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Bob R.</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Ed Alt <<A
href="mailto:ed_alt@hotmail.com">ed_alt@hotmail.com</A>></I></B>
wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Never have seen it before, but I guess the
main question I have concerns the potential for loss of effective torque
transmitted to the control surface. I see that they claim it's
better due to no losses. That would be true in the sense that you
don't lose that little bit in the linkage friction etc., but if you only
want, say, 25 degrees of surface throw each direction, it would appear
that you would have to limit the servo travel to 25 degrees as
well. If that's true, then you have less mechanical advantage for
a given degree of movement for the surface, since you would normally
have a servo traveling about doub! le that distance. The control
surface speed would be quicker, assuming the load is handled without any
blowback or slowdown of movement due to the effectively lower torque
transmitted while moving. Maybe I'm not seeing it right, but it
looks like it might not be such a good thing to use, unless you were
already planning on having something close to a 1:1 correspondence of
degrees of servo arm movement to degrees of surface travel.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ed</FONT></DIV>
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