Smart String Lengths?

[kgustafson]

All,

I am always a late adapter (something I learned from Microsoft) and am now looking into what it will take to get into the Smart String arena.  One thing I have yet to see, what are the approximate lengths of the various number of smart string nodes being offered by Ray Wu?  I believe he has nodes in 25, 50, 75, 100, 132.  Perhaps this is just 10cm X number of nodes translated in imperial (inches and feet), the specs are to be believed.  I think this would help us (me! LOL) figure out things like how many nodes I need for stringing my 15' mega tree, etc.

Thanks,

Kurt

[Rainlover]

Kurt,
The spacing on the smart string nodes is 3.5".
If my math is correct, a 128 node string would be 444.5" long from first node to last node.
100 nodes - 346.5"
75 nodes - 259"
50 nodes - 171.5"
25 nodes - 84"

Hope that helps.

John

[keitha43]

I believe a calculator was posted here a while back I would search the posts.

[rrowan]

I order some 50ct string nodes. I unwrap one of them and found out that not all spacing is 3.5 inches. The string was 50 nodes but 22 inches shorter than the calculated length.

I will have to add nodes to cover the area I need for each frame.

Cheers

Rick R.

[tng5737]

On my 'Squares' the spacing is abt 3.25"   On the 'rectangles'  it is abt 3"   and on the strings it is also abt 3.25"  However, there is quite a variance on the nodes strings from node to node.   In my  calculations I usually use 3.1" to figure lenghts or number of nodes.

[kgustafson]

How about this (if folks are open to this).  Post a single post with the following information from each of ya:

Type of Nodes, Number of Nodes, Length in inches

I will compile the full listing and find averages and variance for each node type and number of nodes.

Make sense?

Kurt