I'm working on a combined Level I and II project. An anti-zipper kit-bash of the Loc Fantom 438 EXL with DD.
The vendor was on site this weekend and I bought a bunch of recovery goodies. I'm good with numbers, formulas and am using OpenRocket. I've been reading as much opinion as possible in the past 2 weeks and now I have a question.
Consider the following:
A 1000# rated swivel attached to a 1000 lb test TN harness attached to 200# rated quick links attached to 60 lb rated turned eye bolt. The entire rocket is say 7 lbs. If the max g-load on the recovery system is say 8Gs, then the max force on the recovery system is around 65 lbs force.
By the example above, we could EASILY get away with smaller, lighter materials.
My question is:
Do you guys tend to do these types of analysis and choose hardware fitting to the task, or just throw the biggest stuff you can fit into the project? Are there factors I'm not recognizing?
Thanks!
The vendor was on site this weekend and I bought a bunch of recovery goodies. I'm good with numbers, formulas and am using OpenRocket. I've been reading as much opinion as possible in the past 2 weeks and now I have a question.
Consider the following:
A 1000# rated swivel attached to a 1000 lb test TN harness attached to 200# rated quick links attached to 60 lb rated turned eye bolt. The entire rocket is say 7 lbs. If the max g-load on the recovery system is say 8Gs, then the max force on the recovery system is around 65 lbs force.
By the example above, we could EASILY get away with smaller, lighter materials.
My question is:
Do you guys tend to do these types of analysis and choose hardware fitting to the task, or just throw the biggest stuff you can fit into the project? Are there factors I'm not recognizing?
Thanks!