Tire and Gear Calculator v0.1 Now UP!
Well the Tire Size calculator was just fine, but it was a step to get to the next stage. That being the shift point calculator. Which basically is just a web based version of a program that I like to use called GearCalc that is for Windoze based PC’s. My version is just the basics so far, need to add Metric support, Graphing, and a few other interface clean ups (spelling errors). It allows entry of tire info like the old tire calc (still up) and addition of RPM ranges, Gear ratios for the rear and transmission. Output is in a text box for easy cut and paste or import into excel if your good enough. Will update more once I get the graphing in. So now when your in a coffee house at 2am and want to calculate the top speed at 7500 RPM it is just a URL away. Feed back if you have it.
I have already found some bugs
Calculations look good, but if you enter crap data you can cause it to get into an endless loop. If you do botch it bad, just close the browser (or kill the process). I’ll have this hopefully fixed up quickly. And NO it does not mess with the server, this is client side code so if you want to crash it, you can, just messes with your browser not the server.
v.2 has been pushed up to the site. Fixed a bunch of validation bugs, that as mentioned above, could lock up your browser. I prototyped one graph like the old GearCal (Shift Ratios) and it was easy, but need to really clean the javascript code up. I will end up purchasing a license of the Emprise Javascrpt Graphing Library as it is really a good product and makes it easy to do this sort of work. I have not found any free open source of this caliber, and wtf, this guy doesn’t deserve a bit of $$ for his hard work? I think I may actually have to learn some HTML, oh well I made it this far and I should be proud of that, not I have to dip in and ‘learn me some stuff’
v.3 is almost done. Nicer interface, good graphing of data, should be up shortly.