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Reply to "Temperature compensation check"

Devil's Advocate here. (By the way, Mark, thanks for the effort to supply this info!)

1) The difference between the corrected measurements is 9mm, or less than a cm., with a temperature variation of 58°, on a 100m course. Take that out to a 300m cal course, which is common, and we have 2.7 cm difference.
2) The length of my Jones click is 8.7 cm
3) The adjustment due to temp. is 31% of the length of a Jones click
4) Most measurers only acknowledge half of a click during calibration, if they don't use even click readings.
5) I'll continue to do temperature adjustments, but, if the adjustment due to temp. is less than the margin of error in click-lengths on a calibration ride, why do we do temperature adjustments if we create a course with the temp. above 35° and below 95°? I would expand that range, but those would be normal temps during the taping of a cal course.

Just looking at the basis for the process.
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