Thread: FPS vs Joule
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Old September 6th, 2017, 19:51   #7
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Originally Posted by SuperCriollo View Post
I would like see a complete switch to joules in Ontario. Measuring with FPS is like using the imperial system instead of metric. Sure, some people find it more intuitive... but its a bad system both in theory and practice...
Are people just checking velocity and totally ignoring BB weight or what?

Fps is literally half the information required to determine muzzle energy. So more realistically; measuring with fps is more like measuring weight when determining mass.
Easy enough to determine mass from weight when you know the gravitational constant at a given altitude.

What I do is write the max fps for each weight on the chrono because its way faster than reprogramming the chrono for every player. And I think the xcortechs calculations are off for muzzle energy anyway.
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