Perhaps they are useless settings and fox finds most people just +/- a few clicks around the middle. Maybe it’s marketing to have more click? Do you have plots for mid-range settings? I couldn’t give a toot how the shock performs at extreme adjustment ranges if it performs acceptably in the middle of the range and still has room for some adjustment. Does the stiff shim stack mean any increase in compression damping is too great to be useful? Apologies if I’m over my head here.
The green curve shown above (green, red, blue on same plot) shows the amount of damping the rider needed and he was not a heavy rider. The shock was incapable of delivering that damping force without HSC and LSC being cranked and producing the lag and hysteresis you can see.
In stock form (red) it delivers similar damping force where it crosses the 0 point to the green plot, but was harsh and uncontrolled. Bleeding it better (blue line) means you'd be able to run a bit less HSC to mitigate but it's still there.
I don't go running damper curves for every click of damper position because it literally takes days. I test extremes and run through a special sequence of clicker settings at different speeds to draw the whole envelope of what the shock is capable of and how much each clicker influences the others (rebound influencing compression etc).
This is already 30-40 dyno runs for each shock configuration or tune. You can't run them through too fast or the shock gets too hot and the results drift from reality (no point testing at 80C if the shock is going to be running 20-40C).
For those three plots in one graph you're looking at about 120 dyno runs already.
