Re: [ATM] Mirror Cells - types, (dis)advantages,about flotation and PLOP

["Don Clement" <clement.focuser@verizon.net>]

> The main comment I'd add is that for larger thinner mirrors, the
'stiction'
> issue is as much of a challenge as the arrangement of the support points.
> It only takes an ounce of 'stiction' to upset the support.



IMO, the best way to eliminate "stiction" is with a compliant mechanism
either solid machined compliant mechanism or made from  separate flexural
components such as the split cross strip hinge. A compliant mechanism can be
rigid in all but a selected number of degrees of freedom without "stiction".



Don Clement

Running Springs, California

http://www.clementfocuser.com/pages/1/index.htm




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