Speed Calculator

[BrianG]

Originally Posted by Serum

Why didn't you added the extra gears in selecting the 3 speed settings? It's just a part of the ratio, which is fixed.

The stock savage also uses extra gears.... a 29/32... just implement them in the first line..

Yeah, I could have done that, but there are two reasons why I didn't:

1: The "engine" requires a set of two tooth counts to get a ratio. To allow for another set would involve more than one ratio (and more tooth counts). I could have fudged it by putting in a dummy tooth count to still use two teeth to equal the final ratio, but that wouldn't be as accurate. Plus, the dropdown list shows the tooth counts and it would have been technically incorrect, not to mention confusing to a user who happens to know the ratio. I wanted the highest precision possible. Incidentally, this is why I don't do any rounding until the very end.

2: The addition of another ratio section can be used if the user has some other ratio not inlcuded in the normal tranny, diff, spur/pinion setups. So far, it is really only used for the saveage, but there may be other setups in the future.

In the end, it was simpler and more accurate to implement it this way even though it was more work.