Metric vs SAE hardware

[MrForbes]

Originally Posted by techhelpbb

Personally robots should be like so many American cars:
Totally unable to decide what should be SAE and what should be metric

Mostly, the stuff that was already in production remained SAE, and the new stuff was metric. This started about the mid 1970s. Some of the old designs were used for several decades. You can still buy a new Chevy 350 engine (made in Mexico now) which looks and mostly interchanges with the 265 engine introduced in 1955.

[dtengineering]

"The game is played on a 27 by 54 foot playing field..."

That's been part of the game description script for a looooong time now, and should be all the advice you need on which system to use.

I always described it as "We're a Canadian team... we're bilingual. We're officially metric, but we speak Imperial because that's what most of our friends speak."

Jason

[tcjinaz]

Originally Posted by MrForbes

Depends on how old your mentors are. I'm in my 50s, I love the old fashioned stuff.

Kinda fond of furlongs per fortnight, eh?

Sorry, I had to,
Tim
(still trying to deal with a Farad implemented is the size of an Australian beer can, but femptoFarads are what a Si engineer needs to cope with)