Dennis wrote:
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> Perhaps the pertinent thing when considering extractor speed would be rim speed. I know that 200 to 300 RPM's top speed workes with a 32 frame, 36 inch diameter machine.
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> Anyone out there know the proper way to calculate centrifical force?
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> Dennis Morefield
> Sideline Beekeeper, 100 colonies(at times!), Oregon, USA
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Really what you are computing is the Centripetal Force or the force
inward on an object moving in a circle. The force that is keeping the
frames going in a circle and not flying through the wall of the
extractor.
F=ma..... Force = mass X acceration.
Ac=Vsquared over r....Centripital acceleration = the velocity squared
divided by the radius.
Boy ..... that stirred up some cobb webs from the past, and an old text
buu also!