Recent content by Shifty8

For as far as I can reproduce from your information, you have an dual channel encoder. Basicly this means channel A and B are shifted a few degrees from each other. In this way, you can determine the rotation direction (clockwise or counterclockwise). Try powering the encoder and see if you can...

I know for a fact that Solidworks has a student version, but you need to have a school license for as far as I know. Still its allot better then Inventor if you ask me, and it includes statical analisys. Even better would be Catia, but I don't know if they do student licenses. If I were you...

I feel like I owe you a clarification as well, I'm not suggesting you are trying to predict the weather, I'm just pointing out that the evaporation rate of the pond is closely related to it. Espacially relative air humidity, which indicates how much water is absorbed by the air (look up the...

Basicly you are asking for an meteorical model as used for predicting the weather, I doubt that's publicly available... I do remember NASA has some nice Models for calculating the surface temperatures of the oceans, but if I'm not mistaking these are based on satellite IR measurements. For the...

I've written an article about this a while ago, funny to find this discussion going on while I was looking for something completely different. First of all, I'm not a sceptic, nor a scientist, and my main language sure aint english. I'm just trying to be realistic a give my view on this...