Battlesuits for smaller users...

Pragmatic · 03-08-2011, 01:43 AM

So, if I'm driving a forklift, I can get it to lift 2000lbs.

But 'Roid Rage Randy over there, he can get it to lift 3000lbs. (Not a real person, just an extreme example.)

Gotcha. Because, using our muscles somehow is the limiting factor of what ST the forklift has in its hydraulics.

Going back to the racecar example, it doesn't matter if it's me driving or Jeff Gordon. There's no way that even the best driver in the world can get a Ferrari to break the sound barrier, because it's not designed to be able to do it.

The machinery of the battlesuit has an upper limit of what it can get out of it. It doesn't matter if it's me driving the battlesuit, or if it's "Randy." The hydraulics/myomer/whatever that supplies the ST will top out.

In which case, it should be a simple matter of recalibrating the settings on the amplification, rather than adding an "11" to the scale. (Spinal Tap reference...)

03-08-2011, 01:43 AM	#20
Pragmatic Ceci n'est pas une tag. Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Vancouver, WA (Portland Metro)	Re: Battlesuits for smaller users... So, if I'm driving a forklift, I can get it to lift 2000lbs. But 'Roid Rage Randy over there, he can get it to lift 3000lbs. (Not a real person, just an extreme example.) Gotcha. Because, using our muscles somehow is the limiting factor of what ST the forklift has in its hydraulics. Going back to the racecar example, it doesn't matter if it's me driving or Jeff Gordon. There's no way that even the best driver in the world can get a Ferrari to break the sound barrier, because it's not designed to be able to do it. The machinery of the battlesuit has an upper limit of what it can get out of it. It doesn't matter if it's me driving the battlesuit, or if it's "Randy." The hydraulics/myomer/whatever that supplies the ST will top out. In which case, it should be a simple matter of recalibrating the settings on the amplification, rather than adding an "11" to the scale. (Spinal Tap reference...)