George Gassaway
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The NAR section I belong to, Birmingham Rocket Boys, is planning our first night launch next month.
We talked about ideas at the monthly meeting yesterday, which prompted me to do a test last night, using an LED Finger Light.
Ive uploaded a video showing the LED Finger Light and how well it lights up an unpainted Estes long BT-60 nose cone:
https://homepage.mac.com/georgegassaway/LED_Nose_Cone.mov
For those of you who have a slow connection, attached are some pics. But this video is only 1.3 megs so it would be worth the wait for the download.
I only taped the light in place for the test, after making a 1/2" hole in the nose cone base. This is not a permanent fix for flying, the light would need to be securely attached, perhaps inside the nose, in a way that would not let it fall out easily but would allow turning it on and off.
Another interesting prospect will be to use a length of clear tubing (the type that protects fluorescent tubes, about the diameter of BT-60), mount some tracing paper or thin paper inside of the tube, and let the LED finger light shine up inside of that. For a 48 long tube, it might look like a bit like a Light Saber.
For more info on obtaining the Finger Lights, Google the keywords: led finger light
The black strap is a Velcro strap that allows strapping the light to a finger.
The most practical thing might be for someone to buy some on eBay like 12 to 20, at a good per-light price, and sell them to club members. Otherwise, the only times I've found these for sale in stores was either at one local Wal-Mart 10 items or less (and cigarettes) Check-out line, and at a dimestore type store last fall among their Halloween items. At a price of about $2.00 each.
- George Gassaway
We talked about ideas at the monthly meeting yesterday, which prompted me to do a test last night, using an LED Finger Light.
Ive uploaded a video showing the LED Finger Light and how well it lights up an unpainted Estes long BT-60 nose cone:
https://homepage.mac.com/georgegassaway/LED_Nose_Cone.mov
For those of you who have a slow connection, attached are some pics. But this video is only 1.3 megs so it would be worth the wait for the download.
I only taped the light in place for the test, after making a 1/2" hole in the nose cone base. This is not a permanent fix for flying, the light would need to be securely attached, perhaps inside the nose, in a way that would not let it fall out easily but would allow turning it on and off.
Another interesting prospect will be to use a length of clear tubing (the type that protects fluorescent tubes, about the diameter of BT-60), mount some tracing paper or thin paper inside of the tube, and let the LED finger light shine up inside of that. For a 48 long tube, it might look like a bit like a Light Saber.
For more info on obtaining the Finger Lights, Google the keywords: led finger light
The black strap is a Velcro strap that allows strapping the light to a finger.
The most practical thing might be for someone to buy some on eBay like 12 to 20, at a good per-light price, and sell them to club members. Otherwise, the only times I've found these for sale in stores was either at one local Wal-Mart 10 items or less (and cigarettes) Check-out line, and at a dimestore type store last fall among their Halloween items. At a price of about $2.00 each.
- George Gassaway
