String Tension Test By Sound

**silentheart** · 03-23-2008, 06:11 PM

For the Never Greater Panda,
It has been ordered with your sweaty band. I should be here this week and i will send it to you ASAP.
For Peter the Greatest,
I will use the Babolat Star5 in the shop. The Alpha machine is missing the tension head (tension head was mounted backward) and sent back for repair. Should I play your favorite song "Me So H!@#$Y" when I string them up?

**Pete LSD** · 03-23-2008, 06:19 PM

Greatest GrandMaster SH,

Please take photos of the Star 5, with the badminton kit, in action. The sight will be the most stimulating. Yes baby, 31 lbs main X 34 lbs cross

. Remember to activate 10% pre-stretch.

Originally Posted by silentheart

For the Never Greater Panda,
It has been ordered with your sweaty band. I should be here this week and i will send it to you ASAP.
For Peter the Greatest,
I will use the Babolat Star5 in the shop. The Alpha machine is missing the tension head (tension head was mounted backward) and sent back for repair. Should I play your favorite song "Me So H!@#$Y" when I string them up?

**drowsysmurf** · 03-23-2008, 07:02 PM

actually, master SH you can already play that song when you string at one tension because when you string mains, due to the different distance in string, they are already creating different notes =P hahaha...

**Matt** · 03-23-2008, 07:09 PM

Originally Posted by drowsysmurf

actually, master SH you can already play that song when you string at one tension because when you string mains, due to the different distance in string, they are already creating different notes =P hahaha...

yup, 2 notes to be exact ehhehe! just need a 3rd to create a chord ROFL!

**Matt** · 03-23-2008, 07:13 PM

Originally Posted by Optiblue

Awesome video, another thing I found out was that you can't compare the sounds of different tensions with different guage strings never mind different strings. 0.70mm always sounds lower than thinner strings @ same tensions!

Yes I would agree. Thicker strings stretch more while thinner strings pull tighter.

I do believe (not sure if it is confirmed) ECP machine is used, the machine would be able to compensate for that and then pull it accurately regardless what thickerness it would be. Compare it to the crank where it does not have this ability that one would have to increase the tension to compensate for the guage differences.

**silentheart** · 03-23-2008, 08:01 PM

Actually, it is due to the physic. Given 2 strings are same length and same tension. If the density of the string is the same, the thicker string will have higher mass. The thicker string will have lower tone under same condition.

**Pete LSD** · 03-24-2008, 01:36 PM

Great GrandMaster SH, we are waiting for the Babolat Star 5 string job. Let's hear the "ting" and do a comparison between Great GrandMaster DinkALot's ECP and the Star 5.

**DinkAlot** · 03-26-2008, 07:51 PM

So sorry! Silly me!

The string on all the rackets were Ashaway ZGut X1709 (0.73-0.74mm).

So, the string pitch will only be higher on thinner strings.

My bad! I'm so used to typing "MP".

...

Hopefully one of the mods can edit my post.

**Matt** · 03-26-2008, 08:22 PM

Oh so lies in the intial review lol!!

**DinkAlot** · 03-26-2008, 08:48 PM

Originally Posted by Matt

Oh so lies in the intial review lol!!

Yes, I'm a lying panda!

I didn't notice it until...just now...XiaoHou was looking at my rackets and I mentioned I just restrung one new Ti10 (which originally had ZGut) to MP and...oh no...

*looks at the other Ti10s and realizes they all have ZGut*

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***Oldhand*** · 03-26-2008, 10:20 PM

Originally Posted by DinkAlot

So sorry! Silly me!

The string on all the rackets were Ashaway ZGut X1709 (0.73-0.74mm).

So, the string pitch will only be higher on thinner strings.

My bad! I'm so used to typing "MP".

...

Hopefully one of the mods can edit my post.

You sure they aren't Yonex BG-80?

**ae86trueno** · 03-26-2008, 10:22 PM

slightly out of topic..
just about last week when i stringing my racket i tried to experiment using the instrument for tuning guitar just for fun.
while tensioning slowly, i keep plucking the string and watching the reading. was quite fun though

**Matt** · 03-26-2008, 10:56 PM

Originally Posted by ae86trueno

slightly out of topic..
just about last week when i stringing my racket i tried to experiment using the instrument for tuning guitar just for fun.
while tensioning slowly, i keep plucking the string and watching the reading. was quite fun though

ahhaah!! seems so! ding ding! =)