Brad. The calibration stick came with a heavy tip weight attached to the shaft. Ungripped. The frequency chart is based on a 5 inch clamp/raw shaft. If your meter comes up with a different value the software adjusts the data accordingly. Then if you and I compare our flex values we end up with the same data.
André. From: Brad Smith To: ShopTalk@mail.msen.com Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 12:30 AM Subject: ShopTalk: PCS Equalizer I went to Tim Hewitt's site that Andre mentioned about the defunct PCS's Equalizer software system. http://www.myostrichgolf.com/equalizer/ It made me curious. Can someone explain exactly how a clubmaker was supposed to use this calibration shaft/software combo. The slide show that Tim had linked at the site above didn't explain just what the clubmaker was supposed to do with this calibrated shaft except "measure it" and put the freq into the software. But with what, for example, as a tip weight? Did it come with one? Was it gripped? One of the tables said that you input their software the stated calibrated shaft freq and then also what that same shaft reads on your freq meter into their software. Then the software will make the necessary adjustment and tell you what freq to build to on your meter, the way you clamp, to come up with a certain numerical flex or letter rating that will be constant among clubmakers using the system. The system has graphs for both. Am I guessing correctly that what it does is this: after you measure their shaft with their tip weight you know how much higher or lower your freq meter reads than their "standard" for this same shaft/weight combo. Then by inputting this difference into their software, it "re-draws" the flex slope lines (whether 2.0 -7.0 or LARSX either higher or lower by this difference amount. Is that pretty much what it did? thanks Brad ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.17/1844 - Release Date: 2008-12-11 20:58
