It is common that a bow has a number of ancillary components to assist in repeatable shooting. The sight and stabilizers are perhaps the most obvious and are dealt with elsewhere. Here four other devices are briefly considered, mainly for documentation purposes.
The ancillary fields are enabled when the appropriate "Features" checkbox is checked in the Bow>Model panel.
Your name for this part of the kit. Max of about 40 characters.
Presently the manufacturer's fields are only used for documentation. Select a manufacturer from the drop-down list or "none" if the component is not installed.
Go to manufacturer's web site if you are connected to the internet. Will open in the default browser.
Allows a description of the model. Can be the manufacturer's model identification or any other text up to about 40 characters.
Select the release type or method from the drop-down list. The release type combined with the bow type, particularly if the bow in not a center-shot type, determine the importance of the spine tuning process.
FlyingSticks does not presently use clicker information in the calculator.
Presently only the Position field is used (by the Spine Match facility on the Ballistics>Internal panel).
Mainly for recurves, the plunger position is the distance from the bow center line to the plunger pad in the relaxed position. Positive in direction of release hand side.
For traditional bows, the distance of the surface of the striker plate to the bow's center-line.
This field remains active even if the plunger is registered as an unused feature as it applies to all bow types.
Enter the total pad travel possible.
Enter the pre-load force on the plunger. This is the force required to just begin the plunger pad's travel. It is best measured with scales or weights while sensing when movement has just begun.
Enter the plunger force just prior to it reaching it travel limit. The difference between the max-load and the pre-load, all divided by the travel gives the plunger's string constant, which is assumed to be linear. These figures are used in spine tuning.
The rest position is adjusted during bow alignment and tuning, but is not used by the calculator at this stage. (When the calculator's internal ballistics capability is expanded, this may become a necessary input).