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Does anyone have any basic design tips? I'm using bracing type P1 from the Wikipedia, consistently getting scores of ~1400 but, of course, I would like to be around 2,000. 3 sets on the top half and 3 on the bottom half.

M017 wrote:Does anyone have any basic design tips? I'm using bracing type P1 from the Wikipedia, consistently getting scores of ~1400 but, of course, I would like to be around 2,000. 3 sets on the top half and 3 on the bottom half.

Double the bracing and reduce the column weight.

This is completely mathematical, but I found a tower design that is possible 4000 score with bonus, using Balsa Man's formulas for BS and interval length

M017 wrote:This is completely mathematical, but I found a tower design that is possible 4000 score with bonus, using Balsa Man's formulas for BS and interval length

Congrats! You've spent time on the right side of the tower world but applying reality to theory is... difficult. I had a theoretical 4389 tower that scored 1600... you can imagine my disappointment. But having those mathematical parts figured out allowed me to continually increase my score. Best of luck!

Raleway wrote:

M017 wrote:This is completely mathematical, but I found a tower design that is possible 4000 score with bonus, using Balsa Man's formulas for BS and interval length

Congrats! You've spent time on the right side of the tower world but applying reality to theory is... difficult. I had a theoretical 4389 tower that scored 1600... you can imagine my disappointment. But having those mathematical parts figured out allowed me to continually increase my score. Best of luck!

Yeah, the sad thing about my towers is that my math is always around 500 better than I end up getting lol.

cheese wrote:

Raleway wrote:

M017 wrote:This is completely mathematical, but I found a tower design that is possible 4000 score with bonus, using Balsa Man's formulas for BS and interval length

Congrats! You've spent time on the right side of the tower world but applying reality to theory is... difficult. I had a theoretical 4389 tower that scored 1600... you can imagine my disappointment. But having those mathematical parts figured out allowed me to continually increase my score. Best of luck!

Yeah, the sad thing about my towers is that my math is always around 500 better than I end up getting lol.

That makes sense because the math is saying everything is absolutely perfect

M017 wrote:

cheese wrote:

Raleway wrote:
Congrats! You've spent time on the right side of the tower world but applying reality to theory is... difficult. I had a theoretical 4389 tower that scored 1600... you can imagine my disappointment. But having those mathematical parts figured out allowed me to continually increase my score. Best of luck!

Yeah, the sad thing about my towers is that my math is always around 500 better than I end up getting lol.

That makes sense because the math is saying everything is absolutely perfect

Yeah, and of course my towers aren't perfect!
I usually math out for a 2700-3200 score tower, been averaging low 2000's

1st tower - 16.5 grams, 6.5 kg + 5 kg = 696.6

2nd tower - 13 grams, held 10.8 kg + 5kg = 1215.3

3rd tower - 20.2 grams, held 15 kg + 5 kg = 990

The first tower was square base, built it in 2 parts and it broke in the middle. First ever tower.

Second was rectangular (29*5 cm), two sides laced together on cruddy jig. Enough to medal at states (RI is not competitive at all.)

Third was also rectangular (29*5 cm), same building method. Used all high density Balsa wood, hoped to hold all 15 kg. It did, and is still intact. Is now backup tower.

I'm kind of a rookie compared to you elite people, but these are still some disappointing scores.

Remember, it is not all about holding all 15. If you have a 15g that holds everything, it could be worse than a 4 gram tower with bonus holding almost nothing.

Any score reports from any state competitions?