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Luxilon Big Banger ALU Power Spin 127/16 vs Pacific Poly Force 16L

Poly Force 16L leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Big Banger ALU Power Spin 127/16 is 54 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Luxilon

Big Banger ALU Power Spin 127/16

Polyester · 16 ga

Pacific

Poly Force 16L

Polyester · 16L ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
21482nd pct
20876th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
4577th pct
4678th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8626th pct
8628th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
4.337th pct
4.543rd pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.45459th pct
0.3615th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.10671st pct
0.08126th pct

Bars are percentile against all 791 strings, and the marked side is the one that measures better, which is not always the one you want. A firmer bed is worse for your elbow and better for your control, and no measurement knows which of those you came for.

Which one wins, by problem

Each string's standing on the site's rankings, out of every measured string in the database. This is where a comparison stops being arithmetic and starts being a decision.

Swapping between them: what tension?

Bed stiffness is published at one reference tension, so the only honest conversion is to scale it. These are starting points from 52 lb, not prescriptions. The calculator takes your own tension.

Coming from Big Banger ALU Power Spin 127/16 at 52 lb

String Poly Force 16L at 53.4 lb 24.2 kg

Coming from Poly Force 16L at 52 lb

String Big Banger ALU Power Spin 127/16 at 50.6 lb 23.0 kg

Hybrid: what if you used both?

Estimated, not measured. No hybrid combination has been tested as a bed. These figures are the two strings' own lab measurements weighted by how much of the bed each one actually is. Treat them as a guide to which way a pairing moves, never as lab data.

Big Banger ALU Power Spin 127/16 mains / Poly Force 16L crosses

Stiffness80th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss77th pct · 1 measured
Energy return27th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential38th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite50th pct · 1 measured
String friction62nd pct · 1 measured

Poly Force 16L mains / Big Banger ALU Power Spin 127/16 crosses

Stiffness79th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss78th pct · 1 measured
Energy return27th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential41st pct · 1 measured
Ball bite10th pct · 1 measured
String friction41st pct · 1 measured

Open this in the hybrid builder

Which goes dead first?

Estimated from tension loss, which is the only thing the database measures about ageing. This is when the bed stops playing the way you strung it, not when the string breaks.

Big Banger ALU Power Spin 127/16

~17 hours of play

Poly Force 16L

~16 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Luxilon Big Banger ALU Power Spin 127/16 Polyester16$21.5021445864.30.4540.106
Pacific Poly Force 16L Polyester16Lfind20846864.50.3610.081

Add a third string Big Banger ALU Power Spin 127/16 in full Poly Force 16L in full