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Quick rules question How long does the tip of a weapon have to be depressed to score a point?
Epee: 750g, X milliseconds
Foil: 500g, Y milliseconds
Sabre: Touch, ?
P.s. This will help me do calculations for current & capacitor usage in a beeper xD In Flanders fields the poppies grow - Between the crosses, row on row, - That mark our place, and in the sky, - The larks, still bravely singing, fly, - Scarce heard amid the guns below. ~John McCrae
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gother than thou
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Epee: x > 0
Foil: y > 15
Sabre: ? > 0 Thru the darkness of Future Past
the magician longs to see
one chants out between two worlds
Fire walk with me.
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Saber has the whipover timing which I think works out to (X<5 or X>15), or something like that. The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated. -Oscar Wilde
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Senior Member
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So for Epee & Sabre, I'd have to what? Pre-charge the capacitor? In Flanders fields the poppies grow - Between the crosses, row on row, - That mark our place, and in the sky, - The larks, still bravely singing, fly, - Scarce heard amid the guns below. ~John McCrae
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Posting Hound
Array 
Epee is an open circuit at rest...the light fires as soon as teh circuit is completed by the contact spring shorting across the contacts at the end of the wires. There's a TRAVEL requirement of 1mm + .5mm residual travel, but that's not what you're looking for.
Foil is a normally closed circuit that requires a break of at least 15 milliseconds to fire the light.
Sabre is similar to epee, in that the light fires immediately upon blade contact with the other guy's target. The whipover time is something different.
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Fencing Expert
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Epee is 2 ms, not 0 (well, 2-10 ms, but with an absolute regulation that it should not register if the signal is less than 2 ms).
Foil is 14ms +/- 1 ms.
Sabre is .1 to 1 ms. If the hit contact time is less than .1 ms then a touch should not register.
-B "Oh but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!"
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Senior Member
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Brad wins (not a first), not only due to accurate information including the allowable ranges, but he use of those myserious 'unit' things... how crazy O.o
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Fencing Expert
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 Originally Posted by keropie  Brad wins (not a first), not only due to accurate information including the allowable ranges, but he use of those myserious 'unit' things... how crazy O.o To be fair, I cheated a bit.
I have a book with information in it that can answer many different rules questions. It included all of the ranges I mentioned. All I did was take some of the information there and put it here.
-B "Oh but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!"
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Originally Posted by oiuyt To be fair, I cheated a bit.
I have a book with information in it that can answer many different rules questions. It included all of the ranges I mentioned. All I did was take some of the information there and put it here.
-B You have a Book?! With rules in it? Oh my, if only there was a way that people could get those for free...
Sorry, I had to.
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Curmudgeon Emeritus
Array 
Er...Brad... where in that Book does it say how long the tip of a sabre must be depressed?  Use the Shift key, people! Keyboard manufacturers everywhere are ineffably saddened when you ignore what they made just for you!
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Originally Posted by Inquartata Er...Brad... where in that Book does it say how long the tip of a sabre must be depressed? Sabre tips are always depressed. It's because they feel inadequate and wish they were epee tips.
 Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
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Curmudgeon Emeritus
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Nah. Sabre tips whistle while they work!
Epee tips, though, often have a screw loose. Use the Shift key, people! Keyboard manufacturers everywhere are ineffably saddened when you ignore what they made just for you!
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